If you loved Key Largo, try The Maltese Falcon

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by John Huston, and they both carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Key Largo, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Maltese Falcon is

Fog-soaked San Francisco, late spring. A cigarette cough. Sam Spade agrees to protect a wealthy man's daughter. Soon, lies and corpses multiply, all connected to a jewel-encrusted falcon. Huston's debut reset the detective-movie chessboard.

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