By THR Staff On Oct. 3, 1941, Warner Bros. premiered thriller The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. The film, nominated for three Academy Awards, has since become a noir ...

The Maltese Falcon is the first crime melodrama with finish, speed and bang to come along in what seems ages, and since its pattern is one of the best things Hollywood does, we have been missing it.

John Huston, son of actor Walter Huston, makes his debut as a film director after several ... obtaining possession of the famed bejeweled Maltese Falcon. Keeping just within bounds of the law ...

Sex, lies and murder is the seductive tone that created the visually stimulating art form of cinema that began in the 1940s with The Maltese Falcon. The film is considered the first real noir that ...

"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) is often called the first noir film, but that's not correct. It's not even Bogart's first noir -- he was in Raoul Walsh's "They Drive By Night," released 14 months earlier.

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has released the full schedule of its popular program led by film director and educator ...