It’s no mystery: The Maltese Falcon goes on the auction block Thursday — and the bidding is expected to reach $1 million. The infamous black bird prop from the 1941 Humphrey Bogart noir… ...

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 classic. The ...

The Maltese Falcon This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form. Unfolding a most intriguing and entertaining murder mystery, picture ...

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 ...

Is it this quality that makes "The Maltese Falcon" the first film noir? Certainly those moviegoers in 1941 would not have called it that. Not even the French would have called it that. Not then.

The first film adaptation of "The Maltese Falcon" was released with that title in 1931. The film stared BB Daniels and Ricardo Cortez, and had a lighter tone and looser pacing than the 1941 version.

The stuff that dreams are made of is going up on the auction block. One of the most sought-after Hollywood props – the Maltese Falcon from the 1941 film of the same name – will go up for sale ...

Is it this quality that makes "The Maltese Falcon" the first film noir? Certainly those moviegoers in 1941 would not have called it that. Not even the French would have called it that. Not then.