"Barton MacLane - Det. Lt. Dundy"
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir about a San Francisco private detective and his dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers, all of whom are competing to obtain a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette. The film has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert and Entertainment Weekly, was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain as the first major film noir, and was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 1989.
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