The 1940s and 1950s were considered ... and expanded into new territory, but classic detective noir films, like John Huston's The Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity, remain to be favorites ...

But in the 1940s though ... does create some parallels between these films in particular. In The Maltese Falcon, Bogart is the hero trying to solve a mystery, one that is masterminded by ...

Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), the cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca (1942) and half The Maltese Falcon (1941). A parody of Humphrey Bogart's movies in which Lou goes ...

In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara ...