If you loved The Maltese Falcon, try The Long Goodbye

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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The Maltese Falcon

1941 · dir. John Huston

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The Long Goodbye

1973 · dir. Robert Altman

What they share

Theysit in Crime / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Maltese Falcon, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Long Goodbye is

Rainy Los Angeles streets at dusk a lonely saxophone plays. A friend's desperate plea and a missing wife. Altman's 70s noir deconstructs genre conventions.

If you loved The Maltese Falcon, try The Long Goodbye

The Maltese Falcon

The Long Goodbye

What they share

What The Long Goodbye is

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