If you loved The Long Goodbye, 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.

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Theyboth carry the paranoid, raw mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Long Goodbye, 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.

If you loved The Long Goodbye, try The Maltese Falcon

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What The Maltese Falcon is

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If you loved The Long Goodbye, try The Maltese Falcon

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