The_Maltese_Falcon

The Maltese Falcon The film opens with credits washing down the screen over a picture of the Maltese Falcon followed by the legend written across the screen. This makes the falcon seem mysterious from the beginning and you wonder why it’s being hidden. Then there is a slow pan of a dark and gray San Fransico ending with a focus on an office window of Spade and Archer. The writing on the window is shown written backwards showing that all is not right in this office. Sam Spade and Miles Archer are two private detectives in San Fransico who are hired by a Miss Wonderly, to follow a man. Miles is murdered while following the man, Spade realizes that his new client isn’t really who she says she is, and Spade becomes involved with finding the statue of the Maltese Falcon. Spade is introduced to a variety of characters who are all trying to obtain the Falcon and go as far murdering to obtain it. The storyline in this movie was a good portrayal of human greed, where no one is who they claim to be. The characters would do anything to get the falcon spade, falcon, man, lighting, dark, characters, archer, across, story, shadows, screen, office, movie, film, written, window, wasn’t, trying, third, stranger, stomach, shown, showing, seem, san, really, portrayal, obtain, noir, miles, maltese, making, made, look