马耳他之鹰

萨姆·斯佩德（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）和搭档阿切尔在旧金山市开了一家侦探事务所。一天，一位贵妇（玛丽·阿斯特 Mary Astor 饰）登门拜访，委托他们寻找自己失踪的妹妹。他们立刻展开调查，发现这名贵妇的妹妹与一位叫做瑟斯的神秘男子在一起。本 来以为这只是一件普通的失踪案，但是事情的发展出乎他们所料。阿切尔在调查案件时被杀害，传说的瑟斯也相继被杀，警方由此怀疑起萨姆与阿切尔的妻子有染而杀掉他的合伙人。深陷泥潭的萨姆依然继续调查案情，他查出贵妇曾与古特曼等流氓倒卖过古玩，之后，古特曼又拜托萨姆帮忙寻找一尊雕像——被称作“马耳他之鹰”的无价之宝。萨姆开始研究起这尊神秘的雕像，结果发现真相就藏在其中。 　　本片获得第14届奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳男配角、最佳剧本提名奖。Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wonderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wonderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese Falcon.