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The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film based on the 1930 novel ''The Maltese Falcon'' by Dashiell Hammett and directed by Roy Del Ruth.^[1]

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1930s LGBT-related films
1930s crime thriller films
1930s mystery thriller films
Films based on The Maltese Falcon (novel)

Agostino Borgato

Agostino Borgato (June 30, 1871 – March 14, 1939), sometimes known as Al Borgato, was an Italian actor and director, before moving to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Bebe Daniels

Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Brown Holmes

Brown Holmes (December 12, 1907, Toledo, Ohio – February 12, 1974, Los Angeles County, California) was an American screenwriter who worked for several major Hollywood studios in the 1930s and 1940s.

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City Streets is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic melodrama directed by Rouben Mamoulian from a story by Dashiell Hammett and stars Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas. The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) and City Streets (1931 film) are 1931 films.

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Crime film

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.

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Dudley Digges (actor)

Dudley Digges (born John Dudley Digges, 9 June 1879 – 24 October 1947) was an Irish stage actor, director, and producer as well as a film actor.

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Dwight Frye

Dwight Iliff Frye (born Fry; February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American character actor of stage and screen.

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Fall guy

Fall guy is a colloquial phrase that refers to a person to whom blame is deliberately and falsely attributed in order to deflect blame from another party.

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Femme fatale

A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.

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Hays Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor.

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J. Farrell MacDonald

John Farrell MacDonald (June 6, 1875 – August 2, 1952) was an American character actor and director.

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John Huston

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.

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Lucien Hubbard

Lucien Hubbard (December 22, 1888 – December 31, 1971) was an American film producer and screenwriter.

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Mary Astor

Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, better known professionally as Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987), was an American actress.

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Maude Fulton

Maude Fulton (May 14, 1881 – November 9, 1950) was an American actress, playwright, stage director, theater manager, and later a Hollywood screenwriter.

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MetaFilter, known as MeFi to its members, is a general-interest community weblog, founded in 1999 and based in the United States, featuring links to content that users have discovered on the web.

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Mickey Finn (drugs)

In slang, a Mickey Finn (or simply a Mickey) is a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their knowledge with the intent to incapacitate them or "knock them out"; hence the colloquial name knockout drops.

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Morgan Wallace

Morgan Wallace (born Maier Weill, July 26, 1881 – December 12, 1953) was an American actor.

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Oscar Apfel

Oscar C. Apfel (January 17, 1878 – March 21, 1938) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Otto Matieson

Otto Matieson, born Otto Matiesen, (27 March 1893 – 19 February 1932) was a Danish actor of the silent era.

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Photoplay

Photoplay was one of the first American film (another name for photoplay) fan magazines.

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Pre-Code Hollywood

Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.

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Red Harvest

Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett.

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Ricardo Cortez

Ricardo Cortez (born Jacob Kranze or Jacob Krantz; September 19, 1900 – April 28, 1977) was an American actor and film director.

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Roadhouse Nights

Roadhouse Nights is a 1930 American pre-Code gangster film.

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Robert Elliott (actor, born 1879)

Richard Robert Elliott (October 9, 1879 – November 15, 1951) was an American character actor who appeared in 102 Hollywood films and television shows from 1916 to 1951.

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Roy Del Ruth

Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker.

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Sam Spade

Sam Spade is a fictional character and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon.

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Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis and Warren William. The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) and Satan Met a Lady are American detective films and films based on The Maltese Falcon (novel).

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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir in which a San Francisco private detective deals with three unscrupulous adventurers, all seeking a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette. The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) and the Maltese Falcon (1941 film) are American detective films, films based on The Maltese Falcon (novel) and films set in San Francisco.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1931_film)

Also known as Dangerous Female.

The Maltese Falcon (1931 film), the Glossary

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See also

1930s crime thriller films

1930s mystery thriller films

Films based on The Maltese Falcon (novel)

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