To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly It's considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, but the darkness and complexity of the story makes it best for older tweens and up. There's also subtle prejudice against less-than-macho Joel Cairo and Wilmer, who are (in the mildest 1940 terms) implied to be gay. There's some fighting with fists, guns drawn. An extramarital affair between Spade and his partner's wife is strongly implied, then confirmed. A character is shot and killed his dead body is later shown as found by Spade. In one scene, Sam Spade loses consciousness after a "mickey" is slipped into his alcoholic beverage. It's a noir movie from the '40s, so it's no shock to see a fair amount of drinking, as well as cigarette and cigar smoking. Parents need to know that The Maltese Falcon is a classic 1941 noir drama in which Humphrey Bogart plays a hard-boiled detective who becomes enmeshed in a web of lies over a stolen valuable.
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