If you loved The Asphalt Jungle, 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, raw mood tags, and they sit in Crime territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Asphalt Jungle, 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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