In 1941, Humphrey Bogart played Detective Sam Spade in John Huston’s film noir masterpiece “The Maltese Falcon,” ranked by the American Film Institute as the No. 6 mystery film of all time. Now, Clive ...

Clive Owen stars as Monsieur Spade in an AMC series that finds the Maltese Falcon detective living in a small village in the South of France — until danger, and death, manage to find him again. This ...

Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA award winner Clive Owen is stepping into the role of Detective Sam Spade, the protagonist of noir writer Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 classic novel “The Maltese Falcon,” in AMC ...

A rough-around-the-edges American finds himself in France, transporting a special kid with the help of some nuns. The kid’s father is a dangerous criminal. Some of the nuns end up dead. Of course, ...

CORRECTS BOOK TITLE - FILE - Novelist Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Maltese Falcon" appears in New York on Nov. 7, 1947. Hammett’s Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max ...

This is FRESH AIR. Author Dashiell Hammett introduced the character of San Francisco detective Sam Spade in his 1930 novel "The Maltese Falcon." Hammett subsequently featured Sam Spade in a few short ...