---
title: 'The Maltese Falcon (1931)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Roy Del Ruth'
released: '1931-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 80
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-maltese-falcon-1931'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022111/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Maltese Falcon (1931)

1931 · 80 min · Drama, Action, Crime, Mystery · United States


## Synopsis

The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film based on the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade and Bebe Daniels as femme fatale Ruth Wonderly. The supporting cast features Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Una Merkel, and Dwight Frye. Maude Fulton and Brown Holmes wrote the screenplay; one contemporaneous report said that Lucien Hubbard was assisting them.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Roy Del Ruth](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-del-ruth)
- **Screenplay:** [Maude Fulton](https://cinepixo.com/people/maude-fulton)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Leo F. Forbstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-f-forbstein)
- **Director of Photography:** [William Rees](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-rees)

## Cast

- [J. Farrell MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-farrell-macdonald)
- [Walter Long](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-long)
- [Otto Matieson](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-matieson)
- [Morgan Wallace](https://cinepixo.com/people/morgan-wallace)
- [Una Merkel](https://cinepixo.com/people/una-merkel)
- [Robert Elliott](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-elliott)
- [Dudley Digges](https://cinepixo.com/people/dudley-digges)
- [Dwight Frye](https://cinepixo.com/people/dwight-frye)
- [Thelma Todd](https://cinepixo.com/people/thelma-todd)
- [Bebe Daniels](https://cinepixo.com/people/bebe-daniels)
- [Ricardo Cortez](https://cinepixo.com/people/ricardo-cortez)

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