Our ongoing series with the Knoxville Museum of Art presents director John Huston’s industry-shaking film noir debut, introduced by UT Cinema Studies’ Eleni Palis at Wednesday’s $5 screening (FREE for KMA members!)

Can’t make it Wednesday? We’ll also be offering a standard encore screening Sunday afternoon!

Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam’s partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man (Peter Lorre) demanding he locate a valuable statuette. Sam, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue, soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejeweled Maltese falcon.

“A work of entertainment that is yet so skillfully constructed that after many years and many viewings it has the same brittle explosiveness — and even some of the same surprise — that it had in its first run.” – Pauline Kael

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