Maltese Falcon

A hard-boiled San Francisco private eye is hired to track down a stolen artifact, a priceless, jewel-laden statuette of a black bird, and his investigation leads him to become embroiled in a series of crosses and double-crosses that lead back to his recently murdered partner. A Best Picture nominee that features an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by the film's director, John Huston, who adapted Dashiell Hammett's classic detective novel.