'When one of your organisations gets killed, it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around - bad for that one organisation, bad for every detective everywhere.'
1928, San Francisco: When his partner is murdered on an assignment, private detective Sam Spade suspects their client is holding back information about the case.
And then he learns about the priceless black statuette of a falcon...
Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Starring Tom Wilkinson as Sam Spade, Jane Lapotaire as Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Peter Vaughan as Mr Gutman, Nickolas Grace as Joel Cairo, Mia Soteriou as Effie, William Hope as Miles Archer, Liza Ross as Iva, Peter Acre as Wilmer, Norman Jones as Tom Polhaus, Harry Towb as Lt Dundy, Don Fellows as DA Bryan, Robin Summers as the Newspaper man, Keith Edwards as the Taxi-driver and Arnold Diamond as the Man with key.
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