The Maltese Falcon

Ruth Wonderly

Sam Spade

Casper Gutman

Effie Perine

Detective Lt. Dundy

Iva Archer

Dr. Joel Cairo

Miles Archer

Wilmer Cook

Det. Sgt. Tom Polhouse

Capt. John Jacobi

Jailbird Seeking Cigarette (uncredited)

Baggage Clerk (uncredited)

District Attorney (uncredited)

Sarah - Prison Matron (uncredited)

When originally sold to television in the 1950s, the title was changed to "Dangerous Female" in order to avoid confusion with its illustrious remake, The Maltese Falcon (1941). Fifty years later, Turner Classic Movies restored its original title card.

Vitaphone production reels #4808-4816 and #4781 (trailer)

Art director Robert M. Haas performed the same function on The Maltese Falcon (1941).

In the second-to-last scene, as Spade identifies killers to the police, his robe goes from being relatively neat to sloppy.

The same prop is used for the suitcase that Spade finds in Miss Wonderly's room and the suitcase which contains the falcon. The travel stickers are identical on each one.

When Ruth displays the envelope while on the couch, she is shown in one shot beginning to stand up with it in her right hand. In the next shot, it has switched to her left hand.

Sam Spade: I don't care who loves who! I won't play the sap! I won't walk in Thursby's, and I don't know how many others' footsteps! You killed Miles and you're going over for it.

Ruth Wonderly: You have a lot of trouble with your women, don't you, Sam?

Sam Spade: Say, what's on your mind beside your hat?