Dashiell Hammett's supreme hard - boiled detective novel, with Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, and an unbeatable
supporting cast that includes femme fatale Mary Astor, genial fat man Sydney Greenstreet, perfumed
crook Peter Lorre, patsy Elisha Cook Jr., and tough cops Ward Bond and Barton MacLane — all turned
by writer - director John Huston into «the stuff that dreams are made of.»