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The American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Films

The L-Shaped Room [1962] La Dolce Vita [1960] La Grande Illusion (1937) La Guerre Est Finie [1966] La Ronde [1950] La Strada [1954] The Lady Vanishes [1938] The Ladykillers [1955]

The Ladykillers

The Laurence Olivier Collection--Hamlet, Henry V, That Hamilton Woman, 21 Days, The Boys from Brazil [1937] The Lavender Hill Mob [1951] Lawrence Of Arabia [1962] Lawrence Of Arabia [1962] The League of Gentlemen [1960] The Leather Boys [1963] Leave Her To Heaven [1946] The Left-Handed Gun [1958] Les Cousins [1959] Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne [1945] Les Diaboliques [1954] Les Enfants Du Paradis [1945] Les Enfants Terribles [1949] Let's Make Love [1960] The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp [1943] Lilies Of The Field [1963] The Lion In Winter [1968] Live A Little, Love A Little [1968] Lolita [1962] The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner [1962] The Long And The Short And The Tall [1960] The Longest Day [1962] The Longest Day [1962] The Longest Day [1962] The Lost World [1925] The Love Bug (1969) (Disney) Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing [1955] Love Me Tender [1956] Love On The Dole [1941] Love Story [1944] Lover Come Back [1961] Lucky Me [1954] The Lucky Texan [1934] Lucky Texan, The / The Desert Trail [1934] Lullaby Of Broadway [1950] Lydia [1941] M [1931] M.A.S.H. [1969] M.A.S.H. [1969] The Magnificent Ambersons [1942] The Magnificent Seven [1960] The Magnificent Two [1967] Make Mine A Million [1959]

The Maltese Falcon [1941]

The Maltese Falcon

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Maltese Falcon is still the tightest, sharpest, and most cynical of Hollywood's official deathless classics, bracingly tough even by post-Tarantino standards. Humphrey Bogart is Dashiell Hammett's definitive private eye, Sam Spade, struggling to keep his hard-boiled cool as the double-crosses pile up around his ankles. The plot, which dances all around the stolen Middle Eastern statuette of the title, is too baroque to try to follow, and it doesn't make a bit of difference. The dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Hammett, is delivered with whip-crack speed and sneering ferocity, as Bogie faces off against Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet, fends off the duplicitous advances of Mary Astor, and roughs up a cringing "gunsel" played by Elisha Cook Jr. It's an action movie of sorts, at least by implication: the characters always seem keyed up, right on the verge of erupting into violence. This is a turning-point picture in several respects: John Huston (The African Queen) made his directorial debut here in 1941, and Bogart, who had mostly played bad guys, was a last-minute substitution for George Raft, who must have been kicking himself for years afterward. This is the role that made Bogart a star and established his trend-setting (and still influential) antihero persona. --David Chute

Synopsis
After his partner's death, private eye Sam Spade becomes involved in a search for a priceless statuette. Based on Dashiell Hammett's classic novel. Includes the original theatrical trailer.

A Man Alone [1955] The Man In Grey [1943] The Man In The White Suit [1951] The Man Who Could Work Miracles [1937] The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934] The Man Who Knew Too Much [1955] The Man With The Golden Arm [1956] The Manchurian Candidate [1962] Marie Galante / Spencer Tracy On Film [1934] The Mark Of Zorro [1920] Marlon Brando Pack: A Streetcar Named Desire, Julius Caesar, Mutiny On The Bounty Marnie [1964] Marty [1955] Marx Brothers - A Day At The Races [1937] Marx Brothers - A Night At The Opera [1935] Marx Brothers - A Night In Casablanca [1946] Marx Brothers - Big Store [1937] Marx Brothers - Room Service [1938] Mary Poppins (1964) (Disney) The Masque Of The Red Death [1964] The Masquerader [1933] Master Of The House [1925] Masters Of Horror [1940] A Matter Of Life And Death [1946] Meet John Doe [1941] Meet Me In St. Louis [1944] Metropolis [1926] Michael Caine - Ipcress File / Educating Rita / The Eagle Has Landed / Without A Clue [1965] Midnight Cowboy [1969] Mildred Pierce [1945] The Mind Benders [1963] Miracle On 34th Street [1947] The Miracle Worker [1962] The Misfits [1961] Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House [1948] Mister Smith Goes To Washington [1939] The Molly Maguires [1969]

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