After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, John Huston, a long-established screenwriter making his directorial debut, got it right, simply by adhering as closely as possible to the original.In this noir classic, detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam's partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man (Peter Lorre) demanding he locate a valuable statuette. Sam, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue, soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejeweled Maltese falcon. This classic film noir detective yarn gets better with each viewing, which is more than can be said for the first two Maltese Falcons and the ill-advised 1975 "sequel" The Black Bird.


STARS.........: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
DIRECTOR......: John Huston
WRITERS.......: John Huston
GENRE.........: Film-Noir, Mystery
METASCORE.....: 96
TOMATOMETER...: 100
IMDB RATING...: 8.1/10  132,620 votes
IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870
RUNTIME.......: 1h 40mn
SIZE..........: 4.41 GB
VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main@L4)
BITRATE.......: 6000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1........: English AAC 1.0 192kbps 
AUDIO2........: Commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax 
SUBTITLES.....: ENG, FRE, SPA
CHAPTERS......: Yes
SOURCE........: Blu Ray
ENCODED BY....: Sartre
ENCODE DATE...: 2018-05-06



Extras

• The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

• Breakdowns of 1941

• Makeup Tests

• Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart

• Warner Night at the Movies

• Three Radio Show Adaptations 

• Trailers