Novelist Dashiell Hammett's legendary San Francisco private detective, Sam Spade, becomes enmeshed with a deadly band of international thieves who will lie, double cross and murder when he accepts an assignment from a beautiful but The Maltese Falcon. Sam Spade's (Ricardo Cortez) partner, Miles Archer (Walter Long), accepts a job protecting Ruth Wonderly (Bebe Daniels). Neither Spade nor Archer believe the woman or the story she tells them, but they do believe her money. Then, when Archer is murdered, Spade's search for the killer drags him in the web of lies and death spun by the desperate people seeking a small, jewel-encrusted statue known as the Maltese Falcon.
