First isn't necessarily the worst,  but it's certainly not the best.

Coming out just a year after Dashiell Hammett published his unforgettable novel, The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 pre-Code crime film directed by Roy Del Ruth.

Ricardo Cortez plays private investigator Sam Spade, and Bebe Daniels is the femme fatale and podcast heiress Ruth Wonderly. Spade and the dame are just two rough characters mixed up in the scramble for the priceless avian statue that the film is named for. 

Listen to birds-of-a-feather Áine and Kevin squawk about apes, un-intimidating villains, and drunken sailors. All in all, this movie gets a lot right, but fails to soar like the classic Bogart film.

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