The Maltese Falcon

Noir Alley host Eddie Muller introduces The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

A TCM original look at What Dreams Are Made Of: A Century Of Movie Magic At Auction, As Curated By Turner Classic Movies, taking place November 25th.

Sneaky Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) gets rough treatment from Brigid (Mary Astor) and Spade (Humphrey Bogart) before cops Dundy and Polhaus (Barton MacLane, Ward Bond) break things up in The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

Humphrey Bogart plays Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941), possibly the greatest detective movie of all time.

San Francisco detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) receives "Miss" O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor), soon joined by partner Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan), early in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941, from the Dashiell Hammett novel.

Summoned from his bed at 2 a.m., San Francisco private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), with thus far friendly copper Polhaus (Ward Bond), at the scene of the murder of his partner Archer, written and directed by John Huston from the Dashiell Hammett novel, in The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

Seminal work, from author Dashiel Hammett through writer-director John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade and Mary Astor as (it turns out...) Brigid, deepening and darkening their characters following the murder of his partner, early in The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in his first meeting with perfumed and mysterious Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre), inquiring about a bird, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941, from the Dashiell Hammett novel.

Spade (Humphrey Bogart) snaps at Effie (Lee Patrick) for letting his partner's widow Iva (Gladys George), with whom he has complex relations, into the office, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) visits the San Francisco hotel suite of "the fat man" Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet), who refuses to explain his interest in the black bird, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941.