Yeah, sweetheart. There's a girl who wants to see you. Her name's Wonderly.
I guess so.
You'll want to see her anyway. She's a knockout.
Sure. In effie, darling. Sure. In.
Will you come in, Miss Wonderly,
thank you.
Won't you? Saddam as one?
Thank you.
I inquired at the hotel for the name of a reliable private detective.
They mentioned yours. Suppose you tell me about it in the very beginning.
I'm from New York. Uh huh.
I'm trying to find my sister.
I have reason to believe that she's here in San Francisco
with a man by the name of Thursby Floyd Thursby.
I don't know where she met him.
We've never been as close as sisters ought to be.
If we had,
perhaps Corinne would have told me that she was planning on running away with him.
Mother and father in Honolulu would kill him.
I've got to find her before they get back home.
They're coming home the first of the month. You've had word of your sister a
letter from her about two weeks ago.
It said nothing except that she was all right.
I sent her a telegram begging her to come home. I sent it to General Delivery here.
That was the only address she gave me.
I waited a week and no answer came. So I decided to come out here myself.
I wrote her that I was coming.
I shouldn't have done that. Should I? Oh, it's not always easy to know what to do.
You haven't found it?
No,
I told her in my letter that I'd be at the ST mark and for her to meet me there.
I waited three whole days. She didn't come, didn't even send a message.
It was horrible waiting.
I sent her another letter to General Livy.
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the post office.
Corinne didn't call for her mail but Floyd Thursby did.
He wouldn't tell me where Corinne was.
He said she didn't want to see me.
I can't believe that
he promised to bring her to the hotel if she'd come this evening.
He said he knew she wouldn't. He promised to come himself if she didn't
he?
Oh, excuse me?
Oh, it's all right. Miles come in.
There's one,
my partner, Miles Archer,
Miss Wonderly sister ran away from New York with a fellow named Floyd Thursby.
They're here in San Francisco.
Miss Wonderly has seen Thursby and has a date to meet him tonight.
Maybe he'll bring the sister with him. The chances are he won't.
Miss Wonderly wants us to find the sister, get her away from him and back home
right
now.
It's simply a matter of having a man at the hotel
this evening to shadow him when he leads us to your,
assist him.
If, after we found her, she still doesn't want to leave him.
Well, we have ways of managing that. Yeah. Well, but you must be careful.
I'm deathly afraid of him.
What he might do.
She's so young and he's bringing her here from New York is such a serious mightn't he
mightn't he do something to her? I'll just leave that to us.
We'll know how to handle him.
But I want you to know he's a dangerous man.
I honestly don't think he'd stop at anything.
I don't think he'd hesitate to, to kill kin if he thought it would save him.
Could he cover up by marrying her?
He has a wife and three Children in England
as they usually do though. Not always in England. What does he look like?
He has dark hair and thick bushy eyebrows.
He talks in a loud blustery manner.
He gives the impression of being a violent person.
He was wearing a light gray suit and a gray hat when I saw him this morning.
How does he do for a living?
I haven't the faintest idea.
What time is he coming to see you
after eight o'clock? All right, Miss Wonderly,
we'll have a man there.
I'll look after it myself. Oh,
thank you.
Uh. Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Would that be enough?
Thank you. Not at all.
Oh. It helps them. If you meet Thursby in the lobby
will, you don't have to look for me. I'll see you. All right.
Thank you.
Thank you so much. Good bye.
They're right enough.
They have brothers in her bag.
What do you think of her?
Oh, she's sweet.
Maybe you saw her first Sam. But I spoke first.
You've got brains.
Yes, you have.
Hello?
Yeah. Speaking.
I thought you dead.
Where
Bush and Stockton?
No,
15 minutes.
Thanks.
You happy.
That's me.
I listen, Pres
Miles has been shot.
Yeah,
that,
I don't get excited.
Yeah, I know.
Now you have to break the news to, I, I'd fry first
and keep her away from me.
That's a good girl.
I get right over there.
You are an angel
five.
What do you want here? I'm Sam Spade. Tom.
Pho phone. Oh, I didn't know you had first back there.
Hello, Sam?
I figured you'd want to see it before we took him away. Thanks Tom. What happened?
Got him right through the pump with this.
And so Webby
English innit it.
Yeah, we
forces be 45 automatic eight shot. They don't make them anymore.
How many going out of it? Just one.
Let's see.
Uh, shot up here standing like you are with his back to the fence, man who shot him,
stood here,
went over backwards,
taking the top of the fence with him and went on
down the hill and got caught on that rock that it,
that's it.
The blast. Bernie's coat.
Who found him, man on the beach?
Anybody hear the shot?
Well, somebody must have. We just got here.
Do you want to go down and have a look at them before we take him away?
Oh, you've seen everything I could.
His gun was still tucked away on his hip. Hadn't been fired.
His overcoat was buttoned.
I found $100 bill in his vest pocket and 30 something bucks in his pants.
Was he working? Sam?
Well,
yeah, he was tailing a guy named Third before.
What for
you want to find out where he lived?
Don't crowd me. Tom.
I went on down and break the news to miles' wife.
It's tough him getting it like that, isn't it?
Miles had his falsest like any of the rest of us.
But I guess he must have had some good points too. Huh?
I guess so.
Miss Wonderly, please.
Huh?
Checked out what time?
Oh,
any forwarding address?
Bye.
Oh, hello, Tom. Hello, Lieutenant. Come in,
sit down,
drink.
Did you break the news to Miles's wife? Sam? How'd she take it?
I don't know anything about women
since when? What kind of a gun do you carry? None. I don't like them.
Of course there are some at the office. You don't happen to have one here. Are
you sure about that? Look around, turn the dump upside down if you want to.
I won't squawk.
If you got a search warrant, we don't want to make a new, I don't like this.
What are you sucking around here for? Tell me or get out.
You can't treat us like Ted salmon ain't right. We got our work to do.
Why were you
on Thursday?
I wasn't. Miles wasn't. But the simple reason we had a client, a
client.
Sorry, I can't tell you that. Be reasonable. Sam, give us a break. Will you,
how are we going to turn up anything on miles killing?
If you don't tell us what you got?
Tom says you were in too much of a hurry to even stop and take a look at your dead partner
and you didn't go to Archie's house to tell his wife we called
your office and the girl there said you told her to do it.
I'll give you 10 minutes to get to a phone and do your talking to the girl.
I'll give you 10 minutes to get to Thursby joint, Gary and Leavenworth.
You could do it easily in that time. But your boyfriend getting that to
just this.
Thursby was shot down in front of his hotel about
a half an hour after you left Bush Street,
your paws off me.
What time did you get home?
Just a few minutes ahead of you. I was walking around thinking things over.
We know you weren't here. We tried to get you on the phone.
Where did you walk to Bush Street. You see anybody? Oh, no witnesses.
Well, I know where I stand now.
Sorry, I got up on my hind legs, boys.
But you fellows trying to rope me, made me nervous miles.
Getting bumped off, upset me. And then you birds cracking foxy.
But it's all right now, now that I know what it's all about. Oh, forget it, sir.
There's be dying.
Yeah.
How'd I kill him?
I forget he was shot in the back four times with a 44 or 45 from across the street.
Nobody saw it, but that's how it figures.
I tell people know anything about him.
Nothing except that he lived there a week alone.
Yeah.
You find out who he was, what his game was.
Well, did you, you thought you could tell us that
I've never seen Thursby dead or alive.
Well, you know me spade.
If you did it or if you didn't, you'll get a square deal for me and most of the breaks.
I don't know. I blame you much, man. It killed your partner.
But that won't stop me from nailing you
fair enough. But I'd feel better about it if you'd have a drink with me.
Ok.
Success to Crime.
She's in there.
I told her to keep her away from me.
But you didn't tell me how, oh,
don't be cranky with me, Sam. I've had her all night. Sorry, Angel. I didn't mean it.
Hello? Iva.
I was just there,
darling.
If you take care of everything,
I think so.
Seven.
Did you kill him?
Who put that bright idea in your head?
Well, I thought you said if it wasn't for miles, you
be kind to me, Sam.
Uh,
you killed my husband. Sam be kind to me.
Mhm.
Hello?
Don't I, I don't,
you shouldn't have come here today, darling. You want to be home?
You'll come soon as
soon as I can.
Goodbye. A
well,
how did you and the widow make out?
She thinks I shot Miles
so you could marry her cops. Think I killed Thursday.
The guy miles was tailing for that wonderly day.
Who do you think I shot?
Are you going to marry Iva?
Oh, don't be silly. I wish I'd never laid eyes on her.
You suppose she could have killed him?
You're an angel. A nice rattle brained little angel.
How am I
suppose
I told you that you arrive?
I hadn't been home many minutes when I arrived
to break the news at three o'clock this morning.
Are you telling me?
She kept me waiting at the door while she undressed.
Her clothes were on a chair where she dumped them hat and coat underneath,
flip on top was still warm.
She wrinkled up the bed but the wrinkles weren't mashed down.
You're a detective, darling. But she didn't kill him.
The police really think you shot this. What's his name?
Do they
look at me, Sam?
You worry me.
You always think, you know what you're doing but you're too slick for your own good
someday you're gonna find it out.
Spade and Archer.
Oh, yes, Miss Wanderley.
Hello?
Yeah, this sounds
bad.
Where
Coroner Apartments, California Avenue.
Apartment 1001.
What's the name?
Mr Leblanc?
Ok. I'll be right over.
Oh,
have miles's desk move out of the office and have Spade
and Archer taking off all the doors and windows and uh
have Samuel's Spade put on.
Oh, come in, Mr Spade.
Everything's upside down. I
haven't finished unpacking. It's done.
Mrs paid.
I,
I have a terrible, terrible confession to make
that story. I told you yesterday
was just a story. All that. Well, we, we didn't exactly believe your story. Miss,
what is your name? Wonder Le Le Blanc.
It's really o'shaughnessy Bridget o'shaughnessy.
We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss o'shaughnessy. We believed you $200.
You mean, I mean,
you paid us more than if you'd been telling us the truth and enough more to make it.
All right.
Tell me Mr Speed.
Am I to blame for last night?
Well, you warned us that Thursby was dangerous.
Of course you lied to us about your sister and all that, but that didn't count.
We didn't believe you.
No, I wouldn't say that you were at for
thank you,
Mr George was so alive yesterday.
So solid and hot. He
stop it.
You know what he was doing.
Those are the chances we take,
was he married?
Yeah. With 10,000 insurance. No Children and a wife that didn't like him.
Please do.
That's the way it was
anyway. There's no time for worrying about that. Now
out there's a flock of policemen and assistant district
attorneys running around with their noses to the ground.
Mr Spade.
Do they know about me? Not yet of installing them until I could see you?
Do they have to know about me? I mean, can't you shield me so that
I won't have to answer their questions maybe. But I got to know what it's all about.
I can't tell you,
I can't tell you now,
I will later when I can.
You've got to trust me, Mister Spade.
Oh I, I'm so alone and afraid
I've got nobody to help me. If you won't help me.
Be generous, Mr Spade,
you're brave, you're strong.
You can spare me some of that courage and strength. Surely
help me Mr Spade. I need help so badly. I have no right to ask you.
I know I haven't but I do ask you
help me.
You won't need much of anybody's help. You're good.
It's chiefly your eyes.
I think in that throb you get in your voice when you say things like
be generous Mr Spade, I deserve that.
But the lie was in the way I said it
not at all in what I said.
It's my own fault. If you can't believe me. Now,
now you are dangerous.
Well, I'm afraid I'm,
I'm not gonna be able to be of much help to
you unless I've got some idea what it's all about.
For instance,
I've got to have some sort of a line on your Floyd Thursby.
I met him in the orient.
We came here from Hong Kong last week. He promised to help me.
Took advantage of my dependence on him to betray me, betray you. How,
why did you want him shadowed?
I wanted to find out how far he'd gone, whom he was meeting things like that.
Did he kill Archer? Certainly
you have a loga in his shoulder hole. Still Archer wasn't shot with a loga
mister Spade.
You don't think I had anything to do with the death of Mr Archer, did you? No,
that's good.
Floyd always carried an extra revolver in his overcoat pocket. Why all the guns
he lived by them?
The
story in Hong Kong is that he first came to the ai
and his bodyguard to a gambler who had to leave the States.
The gambler had since disappeared and Floyd knew about the disappearance.
I don't know,
I do know he always went heavily armed
and that he never went to sleep without
covering the floor around his bed with crumpled newspapers
so that nobody could come silently into his room.
You picked a nice sort of a playmate. Only that sort could have helped me
if he'd been loyal.
How bad a spot are you actually in bad as could be physical danger.
I'm not heroic.
I don't think there's anything worse than death.
Then it's that,
it's, that as surely as we're sitting here
unless you help me.
Who killed Thursby, your enemies are his.
I don't know
his, I suppose.
I'm afraid. I don't know.
This is hopeless.
If I don't know what you want done, I don't even know if you know what you want done.
I won't go to the police. Go to them.
All I gotta do is stand still and they'll be swarming all over me. All right.
I'll tell them all. I know and you'll have to take your chances.
You've been patient with me. You've tried to help me. It's useless and hopeless.
I suppose.
I do. Thank you for what you've done.
I'll have to take my chances.
How much money have you got?
I've got about $500 left. Give it to me.
Ok.
There's only 400 here. I had to keep some to live on. Can't you get some more? No.
Haven't you got anything? You can raise some money on.
That's furs and little jewelry. You'll have to hock em
there. You are.
I'll be back as soon as I can with the best news I can manage.
I'll ring four times long, short, long, short.
No, you needn't bother to come to the door. I'll let myself in
anything stirring.
You send the flowers.
You're invaluable, darling.
They get my lawyer on the phone.
Hello, Sy.
I think I'm going to have to tell a coroner to go to Blazer Sid.
Can I hide behind the sanctity of my client's identity secrets and whatnot?
So, all the same priest and lawyer.
Yeah, I know.
But Dundee's getting a little rambunctious and maybe it is a bit thick this time.
Yeah. What will it cost to be on the safe side?
Oh, maybe it's worth it. Ok. Go ahead.
Gho
quick darling in with him.
Will you come in Mr Caro?
You sit down with Carol.
Thank you, sir.
Now, what can I do for you, Mr Cairo?
May a strange offer condolences for your partner's unfortunate death.
Thanks.
Is there Mr Speed as the newspapers imply a certain relationship between that uh
unfortunate happening and uh
the death a little later of the man Thursby?
I beg your pardon. No
more than idle curiosity prompted my question.
See Mr Speed, I'm trying to recover
ornament that shall we see has been mislaid,
I thought and hoped you could assist me.
The ornament is a statute
black figure of a bird.
I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figure's rightful owner,
the sum of $5000 for its recovery.
I am prepared to promise that dear.
What is the freezer?
No questions would be asked. $5000 is a lot of money.
Yes, Avi
No, that'll be all just be sure to lock the door behind you on your way out.
Good night.
$5000 you would cast your hands together to bank of unique.
I intend to search your offices. Mr Spade.
I warn you if you attempt to prevent me, I shall certainly shoot you.
Go ahead and search.
If you please come to the center of the room.
I have to make certain that you're not armed
and
look what you did to my shirt.
A
and imagine my embarrassment when I found out that
$5000 offer was just who we Mr Speed.
My offer is,
I am prepared to pay $5000 for the figure's return.
You have it. No,
but if it isn't here, why did you risk serious injury to prevent my searching for it?
Why don't you sit around here and let people come in and stick me up?
But certainly it is only natural that I tried to
see if the owner such a considerably expensive possible.
Who is he
Mr Speed?
You will forgive my not answering that question.
Yeah. Well, I think we'd be better off all around if we put our cards on the table.
No, I, I do not think it would be better.
You see Mr Speed. If you know more than I do,
then I shall profit by your knowledge. So will you to the extent of $5000?
There's nothing like $5000 here.
Oh, you want some assurance of my sincerity retainer. Would that do it? Might,
uh, you will take, say $100. No, I will take, say $200.
Now, let's see, your first guess was that I had the bird? There's nothing to that.
What's your second guess
that, you know, where it is, or at
least, you know, it is where you can get
it.
You're not hiring me to do any murders or burglaries,
but simply to get it back if possible, in an honest lawful way, if possible.
But in
any case with discretion
when you wish to contact me, sir, I'm staying at the hotel Belvedere room
635.
I sincerely expect the greatest mutual benefit from our association. Mr
Smith.
Oh,
may I please have my gun now? Oh, sure. I've forgotten all about it.
You will please clap your hands together at the back of your neck.
I intend to search your offices.
Sure.
Go,
go, go ahead. I won't stop. You
turn to the right and go up the hill driver. Ok.
Mhm.
Mr Spade.
Did you bring any news?
I mean,
did you manage it so that the police won't have to know about me?
Well, they won't for a while anyway.
You are wonderful.
You won't get into any trouble, will you?
I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
Yeah.
Do sit down
you, uh,
you aren't exactly the sort of a person you pretend to be. Are you
I, I,
I'm not sure. I know exactly what you mean.
The schoolgirl man, a, you know, brushing stammering and all that.
I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad,
worse than you could know.
Yeah, that's good.
Because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be,
we'd never get anywhere.
I won't be innocent. Good.
Oh.
by the way I saw Joe Cairo tonight.
Do you know him?
Only slightly?
You're good. You're very good.
What did he say about? What about me? Nothing.
What did you talk about? Then? He offered me $5000 for the black bird.
Yeah.
If
you're not going to go around the room
straightening things and poking the fire again,
are you?
No, I'm not.
What did you say? I said $5000 was a lot of money. It is.
It's more than I can ever offer you if I have to bid for your loyalty.
That's good coming from you.
What have you ever given me besides money?
Have you ever given me any of your confidence? Any of the truth?
Haven't you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else? What else is there?
I can buy you with?
I don't care what your secrets are,
but I can't go ahead without more confidence in you than I've got. Now,
you've got to convince me that,
you know what this is all about that you aren't just
fiddling around hoping it'll all come out right in the end.
Can't you trust me a little longer?
How much is a little, what are you waiting for?
I've got to talk to Joel
Cairo.
You can see him tonight.
You think the theater, it'll be out soon. I'll leave a message to his hotel.
He can't come here.
I can't let him know where I am. I'm afraid my place then.
Hello.
I want to leave a message for Joel Cairo.
You know,
I never would have placed myself in this position if I didn't trust you completely
that again.
Do you know that's the trouble?
You don't have to trust me so long as you persuade me to trust, you
don't worry about that. Now
he'll be along any minute
you get your business with Cairo over with, then we'll see how we stand
and you let me go about it with
him in my own way. Oh, sure.
You are a godsend
and I don't overdo it,
Mr
Speed. There is a boy outside
seems to be watching the house. Yeah, I know I spotted him. What, what's that?
What boy? I don't know a kid. He's been trailing me all evening.
Did he follow you to my apartment? I shook him long before that
come in, Mr Carro.
I'm delighted to see you again, madam. I was sure you would be Joel.
Mr Spade told me about your offer for the Falcon.
How soon can you have the money ready? The money is already in cash. Oh, yes.
You're ready to pay $5000 if we turn over the falcon to you. Excuse me, please?
I must have expressed myself badly.
I did not mean to say that I have the money in my pocket,
but that I'm ready to get it for you on
a few minutes' notice any time during banking hours.
That's probably true.
He only had a couple of 100 on him and I searched him late this afternoon at my office.
I shall be able to have the money for you at, say half past 10 in the morning.
But I haven't got the falcon.
I'll have it in another week at the most though.
Then where is it
where Floyd? Hi. It
Floyd
and you know where he hit it,
then why do we have to wait a week or perhaps not a whole week?
And why if I may ask another question? Are you willing to sell it to me?
Because I'm afraid
after what happened to Floyd,
I'm afraid to touch it except to turn it over to somebody else.
What exactly did happen to Floyd?
The fat man
fed
me.
Is he here?
I don't know. I suppose. So.
What difference does it make?
It might make a world of difference
or you or me? Precisely. But, uh, shall we add more? Certainly the
boy outside.
Yes.
But you might be able to get around him, Joel as you did the one in Istanbul.
What was his name?
You mean the one you couldn't get to count?
This is the second time that you have
when you're slapped. You'll take it and liken it.
What's that?
I don't know. Keep quiet.
Uh, hello.
You guys pick 12 hours to do your visiting. And what is it this time?
I want to talk to you. Spade. Go ahead and talk.
We don't have to do it out here in the hall. Do we?
You can't come in? Oh,
come off it now.
You aren't trying to strong on me. Are you Tom? Why don't you be reasonable?
It would pay you to play along with us. A little spade.
You got away with this and you got away with that, but you can't keep it up forever.
Stop me when you can. That's what I intend to do.
There's talk going around about you and Archie's wife. Is there anything to it?
Not a thing?
The talk is that she tried to get a divorce for him so she could
put in with you and he wouldn't give it to her anything to that.
No,
there's even talk that that's why he was put on the spot. Oh, don't be a hard Dundy.
Your first idea that I killed Thursby because he killed Miles. Foster pets.
If you blame me for killing miles too, you haven't heard me say you killed anybody.
You're the one who keeps bringing that up there.
Haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning,
asking a lot of fool questions and getting a lot of lying answers.
Take it easy.
If you say there's nothing between you and Archie's wife, you're a liar.
And I'm telling you.
So, is that the hot tip that brought you up here at this ungodly hour?
That, that's one of them
and the other
let us in.
All right, Spade, we'll go.
Maybe you're right in Buccaneers.
Think it over,
I guess we're going in, I guess you are.
Yeah. What's going on?
Look, look,
look what you did.
Did you do that? I had to,
I was loading here with him. He tried to attack me. I had to keep him off.
I couldn't bring myself to shoot him.
Filthy lie. Are you?
It isn't true.
I came up here in good faith and then both of them
attacked me and then when he went out to talk to you,
he left her here with a pistol and she said as soon as you leave,
they are going to kill me.
So I called for help because I didn't want you to leave me and be murdered and then,
then she's trapped me with a pistol.
Why don't you make it tell the truth?
That's
no way to
act.
Well, Tom, I don't guess we'll be wrong around a lot of men.
I don't be in a hurry, boys, everything can be explained.
I'll
bet
Mr
Shaughnessy. May I present Lieutenant Dundee and detective Sergeant Pole
House.
Mr Shaughnessy is an operative in my employ
since yesterday. That's a lie too. That is Mr Joel
Cairo.
Cairo is an acquaintance of Thursby.
He came into my office
late this afternoon and hired me to find something that Thursby
was supposed to have on him when he was bumped off.
It looked funny to me the way he put it. So I wouldn't touch it.
Then he pulled a gun on me.
Well,
that's neither here nor there unless
we start preferring charges against each other
anyway,
Mr Shaughnessy and I discussed the matter and we decided to find
out exactly how much he knew about miles and Thursday's killings.
So we asked him to come up here and maybe
we did put the question to him a little roughly,
you know how that is Lieutenant,
but we didn't hurt him enough to make him cry for help.
Well, what have you got to say to that?
I don't know what to say. Try telling the facts
what facts.
Oh, quit stalling. All you have to do is swear out a complaint.
They took a poke at you and I'll throw him in a can. Go ahead cro tell him he'll do it
and we'll swear out a complaint against you and he'll have the lot of us
get your hats.
Well, boys and girls, we put it over nicely. Go on, get your hats.
Don't, you know, when you're being kidded.
No, but that can wait till we get down to the hall. Wake up.
D you're being kidded.
When I heard the buzzer?
I said to Mr Shaughnessy in Cairo here, I said there's the police again.
They're getting to be a nuisance
when you hear them going. When are you scream?
And then we'll see how far along we can string them until they tumble. Stop it. Sam?
That cut on his head. How did that get there? Ask him.
Maybe he cut himself shaving to cut.
No, when he pretended to be struggling for the gun, I fell over the carpet.
I fell horse fellas. Take him along anyway for packing a gun. Don't be a sap.
That gun was a plant. It was one of mine too bad.
It was only a 25 or maybe you could prove that
was the gun that miles and Thursby were shot with.
Ok.
No, Sam. No. Get them out of here. Get their names and addresses. My name is Joel Cairo
Hotel.
Belvedere
Mr Shaughnessy's address is my office. Where do you live? Get him out of here?
I've had enough of this. I'll take it easy. Will you, Sam? Is that all you want?
Lieutenant? I think I'll be going now. What's the hurry, Cairo? There is no hurry.
It's getting quite late and
tell him to leave the gun.
I hope you know what you're doing, Sam.
Mhm.
You're absolutely. The wildest, most unpredictable person I've ever known.
Do you always carry on so high hand?
Well, you've had your talk with Cairo
now. You can talk to me.
Oh,
yes,
I'm listening.
I'm still listening.
Oh, look at the time I
must be going. Oh, no.
Why did they told me all about
it? My imprisonment.
Maybe the boy outside hasn't gone home yet.
You suppose he's still there?
Likely
you can start. Now.
You are the most insistent person
and wild and unpredictable, huh?
Hey, what's this bird,
this falcon that everybody's all steamed up about supposing.
I wouldn't tell you anything about it at all.
What would you do? Something wild and unpredictable?
I might,
it's a black figure as, you know, smooth and shiny of a bird,
a hawk or falcon about that high
on here.
What, uh,
what makes it so important? I don't know. They wouldn't tell me
they offered me 500 pounds if I had helped them get it away from the man who had it.
I was in Istanbul.
Go ahead.
But that's all
they promised me 500 pounds might help them than I did.
Then we found out that Joel Cairo intended to desert us,
taking the falcon with him and leaving fly and mean nothing.
So we did exactly that to him.
Then I was any better off than I was before because Floyd
hadn't any intention of keeping his promise to me about sharing equally.
I'd learned that by the time we got here,
what's the bird made of
porcelain or Blackstone? I don't know. I only saw it once for a few minutes.
Floyd showed it to me when we first got hold of it.
You are a liar.
I am.
I've always been a liar.
Don't, don't brag about it.
Was there any truth at all in that yawn?
Some.
Not very much.
Well,
you got it all night.
Coffee will be ready soon. We'll have a cup and try again. Oh,
I'm so tired,
so tired of lying, making up lies,
not knowing what is a lie. And what's the truth?
I wish
I want to talk to Mr Cairo. Joe
Cairo.
Oh, thanks.
Where is he?
What,
where is he?
Oh,
Cairo.
What do you think you're doing? Jack kidding me. I'll tell you when I am
New York. Aren't you
shove
off?
You're gonna have to talk to me before you're through Sonny. Some of you will.
And you can tell a fat man. I said, so
keep asking for it and you're gonna get
it
bloody.
I told you to shove off,
shove off
people lose teeth talking like that.
If you want to hang around, you'll be polite.
Luke.
Hello, Sam. Hello, Luke.
Say that was too bad about miles. Yeah, it's tough break.
I want to show you something.
Why do you let these cheap gunmen hang around the lobby for,
with their heaters bulging in their clothes?
What do you want here?
Well, if you don't want anything, beat it and don't come back,
I won't forget you guys.
What is it?
I don't know. I just spotted him.
Say, what about miles?
I'll see you. Luke
take it with me. Yes.
Good morning,
good morning arson.
Go someplace where we can talk. No, no, no.
Our private conversations have not been such that I'm anxious to continue them.
Forgive my speaking so bluntly, but it is the truth. You mean last night?
What else could I do? I had to throw in with her.
I don't know where the bird is, neither do you. She does.
How are we going to get it if I don't play along with it?
You always have a very smooth explanation. Ready. What do you want me to do?
Learn to study?
Don't he take you down to the station?
How long they work on you a
little while ago?
Why they shake out of you?
Shake up? Not one thing
I adhered to the course you indicated earlier in your rooms,
but I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story.
I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it, but
already about the story's goofiness.
A sensible one would have had us all in the cooler.
You sure you didn't tell him anything? I did not.
You want sleep? If you've been standing up under a police grilling all night?
See you later.
No, not yet.
Yes. I'll have him call you the minute he comes in.
That's the third time she's called this morning,
Mr
o'shaughnessy's in there. Anything else,
the District attorney's office called, Brian would like to see you
and Mr Gutman called and when I told him you weren't in, he said,
would you please tell him that the young man gave me
his message and that I phoned and we'll phone again.
Thanks, darling,
darling.
Somebody's been in my apartment.
It's all upside down every which way I changed as
fast as I could and came right over here.
You must have let that boy follow you there. Oh, no angel.
I shook him off long before I ever went to your place.
It might have been Cairo.
He went to the hotel last night.
He told me he'd been standing up under a police grilling. I wonder
you saw Joe this morning? Yeah.
Why?
Because my own true love,
I've got to keep in some sort of touch with all the loose ends of this dizzy affair.
If I'm ever gonna make heads or tails of it.
Now,
we've got to find a new home for you. I won't go back there.
Got no idea. Wait a minute.
What does your woman's wish? Tell you about her. She's all right.
Well, maybe it's her own fault for being in whatever the trouble is,
but she's all right if that's what you mean.
That's what I mean. Are you strong enough for her to put her up for a few days.
You mean at home? Yeah.
Is she in any danger? Si, think she is. Gee,
it's
a mom into a green hemorrhage.
I'd have to say she's a surprise witness or something.
You're keeping undercover until the last minute. You're a dolly.
Our bridge
effie, here's over to put you up for a few days.
Well, that's very kind of, you, you better start now, go out the back entrance.
There's usually cab parked over the alleyway.
You ride part way with her over the bridge and make sure you're not followed.
You better change cabs a couple times just to be on the safe side. I'll give mom a ring.
There's time enough for that when you get back.
Coordinate.
Hello?
This is Samuel Spade. Say my secretary tells me Mr Brian wants to see me.
Yeah,
you ask him what time is most convenient for him?
Spade.
Sp ad E
Hello, honey.
Yeah,
do.
All right, thanks.
Oh, Sam, forgive me. Please forgive me.
I sent those policemen to your place last night. I was mad, crazy with jealousy.
I phoned them. If they went there, they'd learn something about miles' murder.
What made you think of that? I was mad. Sam. I wanted to hurt you.
Did you tell them who you were when you phoned me? No, Sam dear.
Is that where'd you phone from the drug store across from your place?
You better hurry along home?
And think of something to tell the police you'll be hearing from them and by the way,
where were you? The night Miles was murdered.
Hold on.
I was no,
but if that's your story, it's all right with me.
Now you run along.
Hello?
Yeah, this is f
oh yes, Mr
Goman. I got it. Yeah, I've been waiting to hear from you.
Well, now the sooner the better
say 15 minutes,
right,
we'll see.
Come
see to your left, sir.
Uh
Mr Steve, how do you do Mr Goodman?
You begin. Well, sir,
I distrust the man who says Wayne,
he's got to be careful not to drink too much
because he's not to be trusted when he does.
What is that?
Here's the plain speaking and clear understanding.
You're a closemouthed man.
I like to talk better and better.
I distrust a closemouthed man.
He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things
talking something
you can't do judiciously
unless you keep in practice.
Na
you'll talk. If you like,
I'll tell you right out. I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.
Well,
will we talk about the blackbird?
You're the man for me.
No beating about the bush, right to the point.
Let's talk about the blackbird, by all means professor answer my question.
Are you here as Mr
Shaughnessy representative?
There's nothing certain. Either way it depends,
it depends on
maybe it depends on Joel Carrow.
Maybe
the question is then what you represent.
It'll be one or the other. I didn't say so.
Where is it?
There's me.
That's wonderful, sir. Wonderful.
I do like a man who tells you right after he's looking out for himself,
don't we all?
I don't trust a man who says he's not. Uh,
now let's talk about the Blackbird.
Let's
Mr Spade. Have you any conception
of how much money can be got for that blackbird?
Now,
me,
sir, if I told you,
I told you half,
you'd call me a liar. No, not even if I thought so.
But you tell me what it is and I'll figure out the profit.
You mean you don't know what the bird is?
Oh, I know what it's supposed to look like
and I know the value in human life. You people put on it.
She didn't tell you what it is.
Caro didn't either.
He offered me 10,000 for $10,000. Might you not even pass?
Do they know what that bird is? And what is your impression?
Well, there's not very much to go by. Cairo
didn't say he didn't, he didn't say he didn't.
She said she didn't, but uh I took it for granted. She was lying.
Not an injudicious thing to do
if they don't know.
I'm the only one in the whole white sweet world of death.
Well, when you told me that'll make two of us
mathematically correct her,
but I don't know for certain that I'm going to tell you
or I'll be foolish, you know what it is. I know where it is. That's why I'm here.
Where is it?
You see,
I
tell you what I know,
but you won't tell me what, you know,
it's hardly equitable, sir.
No, no, I don't think we can do business along those lines.
I'll think again and think fast.
I told that gunsel of yours, you'd have to talk to me before you're through.
I'm telling you now, you'll talk to me today or you,
what are you wasting my time for? I can get along without you. And another thing,
keep that gunsel out of my way while you're making up your mind.
I'll kill him if you don't, I'll kill him.
Well,
I must say you have a most violent temper.
Think it over. You've got till five o'clock
and you're either in or out
or keep
who killed Thursday.
I don't know.
Perhaps you don't, but you could make an excellent guess.
My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy.
But Mrs Spade didn't raise any Children.
Dippy enough to make guesses in front of a district
attorney and an assistant district attorney in a stenographer.
Why shouldn't you, if you have nothing to conceal,
everybody has something to conceal.
I'm a sworn officer of the law 24 hours a day
and neither formality nor informality justifies you withholding evidence.
Of crime for me,
except of course, on constitutional grounds.
Now,
both you and the police have as much as accused
me of being mixed up in the other night's murderers.
Well, I've had trouble with both of you before and as far as I can see,
my best chance of clearing myself of the trouble you're trying to
make for me is by bringing in the murderers all tied up.
And the only chance I've got of catching them
and tying them up and bringing them in is by
staying as far away as possible from you and
the police because you'd only gum up the works.
You're getting this. All right, son or am I going too fast for you? No, sir.
I'm getting it. All right. Good work.
Now,
if you want to go to the board and tell them I'm
obstructing justice and ask them to revoke my license hop to it.
You tried it once before and didn't get you anything but a good laugh all around.
Now, look here and I don't want any more of these informal talks.
I have nothing to say to you or the police and I'm
tired of being called things by every crackpot on the city payroll.
So if you want to see me pinch me or subpoena
me or something and I'll come down with my lawyer,
I'll see you at the inquest. Maybe.
Come on. He wants to see you.
I didn't expect you till 525. I hope I haven't kept you waiting.
Keep on rising. Me, they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
The cheaper they cook the Gauer,
the fatter. Huh?
Now, let's go.
Come on. This will put you in solid with your boss.
Uh, coming in, sir. Thank you for coming. Coming
here.
You shouldn't let him go around with these on him. He might get himself hurt.
Well, uh, what's it crippled? Knows he took him away from him.
I made him give him back.
I guess you had a chat with
us knowing an amazing character.
Give me a hat.
Sit down.
I owe you an apology, sir. Never mind that.
Let's talk about the Blackbird.
All right, sir.
Yes,
let's,
this is going to be the most astounding thing you've ever heard of.
And I say this knowing that a man of your caliber and your profession
must have known some astounding things in his time.
What do you know sir, about the order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem,
later known as the Knights of Rhodes and other things, Crusaders or something?
Weren't they?
Very good? Sah,
in 1539 these crusading aides persuaded Emperor Charles
the fifth to give them the island of Malta
he made. But one condition
that they pay him each year,
the tribute of a falcon in acknowledgment that Malta was stood under the spade.
You follow me.
Have you any conception of the extremely immeasurable
wealth of the order of that time.
I
imagine they were pretty well fixed, pretty well is putting in mining.
They were rolling in. Well, sir,
for years they'd taken from the east.
Nobody knows what spoils of gems, precious metals, silks, ivory. Sir,
we all know the Holy Wars to them were largely a matter of loot.
The knights were profoundly grateful to the
Emperor Charles for his generosity toward them.
Hit upon the happy thought of sending him for his first year's tribute.
Not an insignificant lay bird,
the glorious golden falcon
crusted from head to foot
in the finest jewels in their covers.
Nelson,
what do you think of that?
I don't know. These are facts, historical facts,
not schoolbook, history, not Mr Wells's history, but history. Nevertheless,
they sent this foot eye jewel bird to Charles who
was then in Spain and they sent it in a galley
commanded by a member of the order.
We never reached Spain,
famous admiral of Buccaneers,
took the knight's galley
and the bird
in 1713,
he turned up in Sicily.
In 1840
it appeared in Paris had by that time acquired a coat of black enamel
so that it looked nothing more than a fairly interesting black statue
in that disguise. It was as you may say, kicked around Paris
for over three score years by private owners. Too stupid
to see what it was under the scheme.
Then in
1923 a Greek dealer
named Carlos constantinides found it in an obscure shop.
No thickness of enamel
could conceive value from his eyes.
You begin to believe me a little.
I haven't said I didn't.
Where's it to hold it safe while pursuing his researches into its history.
Carlos re enameled the bear
despite this precaution. However,
I got wind of his f
if I'd only known a few days sooner.
I was in London when I
packed a bag, got on the boat train immediately
on the train.
I opened the paper the times and read that
Carlos's establishment had been burglarized and he murdered.
Sure enough on arriving there,
I discovered the bird was gone.
That was 17 years ago.
Well, sir, it took me 17 years to locate that bird, but I did,
I wanted it.
I'm a man not easily discouraged when I want something.
I traced it to the home of a Russian general. One Kedo
in an Istanbul suburb.
He didn't know a thing about it. It was nothing but a black enamel figure to him,
his natural contra and has kept him from selling it to me
and I made him an offer. So I sent him some
agents to get it.
They got it
and I haven't got it.
I'm going to get it
yola.
Then the bird doesn't really belong to any of you. But to a general
Kedo,
we
say you might as well say it belonged to the king of Spain.
I don't see how you can honestly grant anyone else a clear title to it
except by right of possession
a mouser
before we start to talk prices.
How soon can you, uh, or how soon are you willing to produce the Falcon?
A couple of days?
That is satisfactory?
Well, see here's a fair bargain
profits large enough for both of us.
What's your idea of a fair bargain?
I will give you $25,000
when you deliver the Falcon to me
and another 25,000 later on. Or I will give you one quarter.
What I realize on the falcon that would amount to a vastly greater sum.
How much greater, who knows? Shall we say 100,000?
Would you believe me if I name a sum? That seems the probable minimum. Why not?
What would you see to a quarter of a million?
Now, you think that Dennis is worth a million, huh? In
your own words, why not?
It's a lot of dough.
It's a lot of dough
minimum, huh? What's the maximum, the
maximum I refuse to guess.
You think? Me? Crazy?
I don't know.
No telling how high it could go
up.
That is the one and only truth about it.
Wait a minute.
Yeah,
I,
hello, effi, it's me.
Let me talk to Mr Shaughnessy.
He isn't there.
I
just didn't show up.
No.
Listen, you get on back to the office and wait that light coming. You hear from me?
Yeah. Let's do something. Right. For a change.
Oh,
someone I know came aboard this afternoon. I haven't seen her since I'm worried.
No reason to be. Mr,
everybody got off. All right, I wanted to saw
her. She's kind of small about uh
5 ft. They,
they couldn't tell you, Mr,
but if she come aboard, she got off. All right.
Only the harbor watch was aboard when the fire started.
Now, you know, as much about it as I do. Precious.
Maybe they went down to the ship. Maybe they didn't.
The part about the bird is thrilling
are ridiculous,
you know.
Oh,
lock that door.
Yes.
Is he?
Yeah.
Couldn't have come far with those holes in them.
Couldn't he have stayed alive long enough to tell us something?
Yeah.
Yeah. None of that. Now, come on,
you can't pass out on me now.
All right, Jim.
Do you really think it's,
we've got it, Angel. We've got it. Hurt him.
Answer the phone.
Hello?
Yes.
Who?
Oh, yes.
Where?
Yes. Yes.
Hello. Hello. Hello
there.
So she wanna say she wants you. She's in danger. Where is she? Wellington? 26. A
Sam. A voice. It was awful and something happened to her before she could finish.
Go help her, Sam.
Well, you've got to go to her, don't you?
See, he was helping her and they killed him and, well, you've got to go to him.
All right, I'll go
now, after I've gone, you phone,
the police tell them how it happened but don't drag any names and you don't know.
I got the phone call and I told you I had to go but I didn't say where
now forget about this thing. Tell them how it happened.
But without the bundle, I'll get that straight.
Everything happened exactly as it did happen.
But without the bundle and I got the phone call, not you. Yes, sir.
Ok.
She
saw and lock it behind me and don't open it till the police come.
Do you know who he is? Yeah.
Yeah, he's Captain
Jacoby Master of the La Paloma.
You're a good man, sister.
Yeah,
I'll buy you a pencil for sure.
Frank. Oh, hello, Mr State. You got plenty of gas. Sure thing. You know where
Ancho Street or Avenue is in Burlingame. Nope. But if she's there we can find her.
26 is the number in the center of the best. Correct?
Keep your motor running.
B
there, Mr Spade. Yeah,
let's get to a phone booth.
Hello, Miss Green is effi there.
Yes, please.
Hello. Precious. What's the good news?
No, no, it was a bum steer. Are you sure? That was her voice?
Oh,
it was ho
everything go. All right.
Nothing said about the bottle. Huh?
That's, well,
I take it out of the hall.
All right. Precious. You better hit the hay and get a good night's rest.
You sound all in.
Oh, no, save it. Lamar. I'm going on home.
Thanks. Good night, Frank,
hiding the door, way up the street.
I thought you'd never come.
You make it all right, or shall I carry you? I'll be all right as
soon as I
can get some.
Well, sir, we're all here. Now.
Let's come in and sit down and be comfortable and talk. Sure.
Get away.
You're not gonna frisk me.
Still shut up. Take your paws off me. I'll make you use that gun.
Ask your boss if he wants me shut up before we talk.
Never mind Willman.
Mhm. Mhm.
You certainly are the most headstrong individual
where
let's be seated.
Well, are you ready to make the first payment and take the falcon off my hands?
Where it
as to that
10,000,
we were talking about a lot more money than this. Yes, sir.
We were, this is a genuine coin of the realm.
The dollar of this. You can buy $10 of talk
and there are more of us to be taken care of now.
That may be, but I've got the falcon.
I shouldn't think it would be necessary to remind you, Mr Sp
that you may have the falcon,
but we certainly have you. Well, I'm trying not to let that worry me.
We'll get back to the money later on. There's something else to be discussed first.
We've got to have a fall guy.
The police have got to have a victim somebody,
they can pin those three murders on three,
but he's only two because Thursby certainly killed your partner.
All right. Only two. Then what difference does it make the point is?
We've got to give the police come, come, Mr Spade.
You can't expect us to believe at this late date
that you're the least bit afraid of the police
or
that you're not quite able to handle. I'm in this up to my neck. Duckman.
I've got to find somebody a victim when the time comes. If I don't,
I'll be it.
Let's give him the guns.
He actually did shoot Thursby and
Jacoby didn't he?
Anyway, he's made the order for the pie. Look at him.
Let's give him to them
by God,
sir. You are a character that you are.
There's never any telling what you will say or do
next except that it's bound to be something astonishing.
Why it's our best bet with him in the hands of police. My dear man.
Can't you see that if I even for a moment thought of doing such a thing?
That's ridiculous. I feel towards will me here just exactly as if he were my own son.
Really? I do.
But if I even for a moment thought of doing what you propose,
what in the world would keep Wilma
from telling the police
every last detail about the falcon and all let him talk his head off.
I'll guarantee you nobody will do anything about it.
Well, well, what do you think of this Wilma? Mighty funny.
Might be funny.
How do you feel now? Any better? Precious,
much better.
I'm frightened. Well,
don't be,
nothing very bad is going to happen here.
You want a drink Angel.
Be careful then.
Well,
if you're really serious about this,
the least we can do in common politeness is to hear you out.
Now, how would you be able to fix it?
So the will, couldn't do us any harm.
I can show Brian our district attorney that
if he goes around trying to collect everybody,
he's gonna have a tangled case.
But
if he sticks to Wilmer here,
he can get a conviction standing on his head.
Get up on your feet.
I took all the writing from you. I'm gonna take,
get up and shoot it out
young wild west.
Maybe you better tell him that shooting me before you get
your hands on the falcon is gonna be bad for business.
No, no, Wilma,
we can't have any of that.
You shouldn't let yourself attach so much importance to these things.
They'll have to lay off me then.
No,
will.
Your plan is, uh, not at all satisfactory, sir.
Let's not say anything more about it.
All right.
I've got another suggestion.
It may not be as good as the first one, but it's better than nothing
you want to hear it. Most of your
give them Cairo.
Well, back
and suppose we give them. You and Mr Shaughnessy. How about that? Huh?
You want the fork and I've got
it. The fork guy is part of the price. I'm asking as for Mr Shaughnessy.
If you think she can be rigged for the part,
I'm perfectly willing to discuss it with you.
You seem to forget that you are not in a position at all to insist upon anything.
Now, come, gentlemen, let's keep our discussion on a friend, please.
There certainly is something
in what Mr Caro said.
If you kill me,
how are you gonna get the bird?
And if I know you can't afford to kill me,
how are you gonna scare me into giving it to you?
Well, are there other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill?
Yes, that's,
that's true.
But
there are none of them any good unless the threat of death is behind him.
You see what I mean?
If you start something, I'll make it a matter of you having to kill me.
I call it off.
That's an attitude, sir. The cause of the most delicate judgment on both sides
because as you know, sir, in the heat of action,
men are likely to forget where their best interests lie
and that their emotions carry them away.
And the trick for my angle is to make my play strong enough to tie you up,
but not make you mad enough to bump me off against you.
Better judgment
there
is
you are a character
62 and even they're selling out Sonny.
I hope you're not letting yourself be influenced by the guns.
These pocket edition desperadoes are waving around
because I've practiced taking guns away from these boys before.
So we'll have no trouble there.
Wilma, here is
Wilma.
Well, man,
Wilma,
well, now
there's our fall guy
now,
either you'll say yes right now or I'll turn the
falk and a whole lot of you don't like that,
sir.
You won't like it.
Well,
you can have him.
I won't be able to get the fork until daylight or maybe later
strikes me to be best for all concerned.
If we did not get out of each other's sight until our business has been transacted,
you have the envelope and
Mr Shaughnessy has it. That's all right. Hang on to it.
We don't have to lose sight of each other. The ding, it will be brought to us here.
Excellent, sir. Excellent.
And in exchange for the 10,000 and Wilma,
you'll give us the falcon
and an hour to of Greece. Now, let's get the details fixed first.
Why did he shoot Thursby? And why? And where and how did he shoot Captain
Jacoby?
You see,
I've got to know all that happened so I can
be sure the parts that don't fit are covered up.
I should be candid with you, sir.
Thursby was Miss
o'shaughnessy's ally.
We believe that disposing of him in the manner we did would cause Miss
o'shaughnessy to stop and think that perhaps it would be best
to patch up her differences with us regarding the Falcon.
Then you didn't try to make a deal with him before giving him the works. We did.
Yes, sir. We most certainly did.
I talked to myself that very night but I could do nothing with him.
He was quite determinedly loyal to Mr
o'shaughnessy.
So Wilma followed him back to the hotel and did what he did.
Oh, that sounds all right.
Al
Jacobi,
Captain Jack of his death
was entirely Mrs
Shana's fault.
Tell me what happened.
Well, Cairo,
as you must have surmised got in touch with me
after he left police headquarters yesterday night or morning,
he recognized the mutual advantage of pooling forces.
Mr Cairo
is a man of nice judgment.
The Paloma was his thought.
He saw the notice of its arrival in the papers and remembered he had heard in Hong Kong
that
Jacobi and Miss o'shaughnessy were seen together.
Mhm.
Where he saw that notice and putting two and two together
guessed the truth. She had given the bear to
Jacoby to bring here for her.
And at that juncture, you decided to slip me a macky, huh?
There's no place for you in our plan, sir.
So we decided to spare ourselves any possible investment,
Mr
Caro
and Wilma and I went to call on Captain Jacoby.
We were lucky enough to arrive while Mr
Shaughnessy was there
in many ways. The conference was difficult,
but we finally persuaded Miss o'shaughnessy to come to terms. Oh, so we thought
we then left the boat and set out for my hotel
where I was to pay Miss o'shaughnessy and receive the bird.
Well, sir, we, we are men should have known better en route. She Captain
Jacoby and the Falcon slipped completely through our fingers.
It was neatly done, sir. Indeed, it was.
You touched off the boat before you left? No, not intentionally
though. I dare say we or Wilma at least were responsible for the fire
while the rest of us were talking in the cabin. Wilma
went about the boat trying to find the Falcon.
No doubt he was careless with matches.
How about the shooting?
We caught up with Miss o'shaughnessy and
Jacobi at her apartment.
I sent Wilma downstairs to cover the fire escape before ringing the bell.
And sure enough, while she was asking us who we were through the door
and we were telling her we had a window go up.
Wilma shot
Jacobi
as he was coming down the fire equa shot him more than once.
Jacobi was too tough to fall or drop the Falcon.
He climbed down the rest of the way, knocked Wilma over and ran off.
We persuaded
that is the word, sir.
We have persuaded Miss o'shaughnessy to tell us where
she had told Captain Jacoby to take the Falcon.
And we uh further persuaded her to phone your
office in an attempt to draw you away before
Jacobi got there.
But unfortunately for us, it had taken us too long to persuade Miss o'shaughnessy.
And you had the falcon before we could reach you.
Well, Wilma, I'm sorry, indeed to lose you.
But I want you to know, I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son.
Well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another.
There's only one Maltese Falcon
when you're young, you simply don't understand these things.
How about some coffee? Put the pot on with you. Angel. I don't like to leave our guest,
Shirley
just a moment. My dear, hadn't you better leave the envelope in here.
Sit on it if you're afraid of losing it.
You misunderstand me. It's not that at all.
Business should be transacted in a businesslike manner.
For instance,
there are only nine bills here.
Now, there were 10 when I handed them to you as you very well know.
Well,
I want to know about this.
You pounded,
I palmed it. Yes. Do you want to say so? Or do you want to stand for a frisk stand
for? You're going to admit it or I'm gonna search you. There's no third way
by
guys. I believe you. What I really do. You are a character if you don't mind my saying.
So
you palmed it.
Yes, sir.
That I did.
I must have my little joke.
Now and then, and I was curious to know what you would do in a situation of this sort.
I must see you pass the test with flying colors,
sort of a thing I'd expect from somebody Wilma's
age. This will soon be yours. You might as well take it.
I ought to have more than 10,000. Of course, you understand.
This is the first payment
be,
oh, yes, later you give me millions. But uh
how's about 15,000 now? Frankly? And candidly
upon my word of honor as a gentleman,
10,000 is all the money I can raise.
But you didn't say positively
positively.
I'd like to give you a word of advice. Go ahead.
I dare say you're going to give her some money.
But if you don't give her as much as she thinks she ought to have
my word of advice is
be careful.
Dangerous.
Very.
How's the coffee coming angel?
It's almost daylight. Mr Speed.
Can you start getting it now?
I guess so.
Hello.
I love precious.
I'm sorry to get you up so early.
Well, listen carefully. Here's the plot
in the Holland box at the post office. There's an envelope with my scrawl
in that envelope. There's a parcel room check for the bundle we got yesterday.
Uh huh.
I get that bundle and bring it here PDQ.
That's a good girl.
A hustle.
Goodbye.
Thanks lady. Sorry to spoil you a day of rest. Not the first one.
You spoil anything else? No, no, thanks. Bye bye. Then.
There you are.
No. After 17 years,
is it?
You make the show
fake.
It's a folly. It's land,
it's land,
it's a fake.
All right, you've had your little joke now. Tell us about it.
No, Sam. No,
that's the one I got from Kevin.
I swear.
You,
it's you who bungled it?
You and you were stupid attempt to bite
came me to found out how valuable it was.
No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. You,
you imbecile,
you bloated, idiot. You stupid fat you.
Oh.
Mm.
Mhm.
Yes. It's the Russians hand. There's no doubt about it.
Well, so what do you suggest? We stand here and shed tears and call each other names
or shall we go to Istanbul?
Are you going?
17 years? I wanted that enlighten and I've been trying to get it.
We must spend another year on the quest.
Well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only
I am 15th, 17th percent.
I'm going with you
where
I,
uh,
a
swell out of thieves. You've got enough to boast about, sir.
The world hasn't come to an end just because we've run into a little setback.
I must ask you for that honor. I held up my end. You got your dingers.
It's your hard luck. Not mine. It wasn't what you wanted.
Now comes that we've all failed
and there's no reason for expecting any of us to bear the whole brunt
in short time. I must ask you for my 10,000.
This will take care of my time and expenses.
Now, sir, we'll say goodbye to you
unless you care to undertake the Istanbul expedition with us.
You don't.
But frankly, sir,
I'd like to have you along. You're a man of nice judgment and many resources
now that there's no alternative, I dare say you manage the police without a forgot.
Oh my God. All right. Well, sir, the shortest farewells are best. Thank you.
And you Mr o'shannessy.
I leave the rear of
Avis on the table there
as a little momentum.
Yeah.
Hello, sergeant. Pull
on Sam.
Yeah. Put him on. This is Sam Spade.
Hello, Tom.
Listen, I've got something for you. Here it is
Jacoby and Thursby were killed by a kid named Wilma Cook.
He's about 20 years old, 5 ft six wearing a gray overcoat.
He's working for a man named Casper Gutman.
You can't miss Gutman. He must weigh 300 pounds.
That fellow Cairo's in with them too.
They just left here for the Alexandria hotel, but you'll have to move fast.
They're blowing town.
I want yourself when you go up against the kid.
Yes, that's right. Very
and good luck Tom.
They talk when they're nailed about us. We're sitting on dynamite.
We've only got minutes to get set for the police. Now give me all of it fast.
When you first came to my office, why did you want Thursby shadowed?
I told you, Sam, I thought he was betraying me. I wanted to find out not a lie.
You want Thursby Hook and you knew it and you wanted to get rid of him before
Jacoby came with the loot. So you wouldn't have to split it with him. Isn't that?
So, what was your scheme?
I thought if he knew someone was following him, he'd be frightened into going away.
Miles wasn't clumsy enough to be spotted. The first night
you told Thursby he was being followed.
I told him,
I told him
yes.
But please believe me, Sam,
I wouldn't have told him if I thought Floyd would kill him.
If you thought he wouldn't kill Miles. He were right. Angel.
Miles hadn't many brains,
but he'd had too many years' experience as a detective to be caught like that by a man.
He was shadowing up a blind alley with his gun in his hip and his overcoat button.
But he'd have gone up there with you, Angel.
He was just dumb enough for that.
He'd have looked you up and down and licked his lips and gone.
Grinning from ear to ear.
Then you could have stood as close to him as you liked in the dark
and put a hole through him with the gun you got from Thursday that evening.
Sam don't see that
the police will be here any minute. That talk?
Oh, why do you accused this time for that schoolgirl act?
We're both of us sitting under the gallows. Now, why did you shoot miles?
I didn't mean to at first
really? I didn't,
but what I found out that Floyd couldn't be frightened. I,
oh, I can't look at you.
You thought Tur
would tackle miles and one or the other of them would go down if Thursby was killed.
You were rid of him. If it was miles, you see that Thursby was caught and set up for it.
Isn't that right? Something like that.
And when you found that Thursby wasn't going to tackle him.
You borrowed his gun and did it yourself right.
And when you heard Thursby was shot, you know,
Gutman was in town and you knew you needed another protector,
somebody to fill Thursby boots.
So you came back to me. Yes,
sweetheart. It wasn't only that
I'd have come back to you. Sooner or later from the very first instant I saw you. I knew
well,
if you get a good break, you'll be out of De
Hatchapi in 20 years and you can come back to me, then
I hope they don't hang you precious for that sweet neck.
You're not. Yes, angel. I'm gonna send you over.
But chances are, you'll get off with life.
That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you.
If they hang you, I'll
always remember you
dot
S.
Don't say that even in fun,
I was frightened for a minute.
I really thought
you do such wild and unpredictable things. Don't
be silly.
You're taking the fall.
You've been playing with me
just pretending you care to track me like this.
You didn't care at all.
You don't love me.
I won't play the sap for you. Oh, you know, it's not like that.
You can't say that you'll never played square with me for
half an hour at a stretch since I've known you.
You know, darn deep in your heart that in spite of anything I've done, I love you.
I don't care who loves who. I won't play the sap for you.
I won't walk at Thursday's and I don't know how many other footsteps
you've killed miles and you're going over for it.
How can you do this to me? Sam?
Surely Mr Arch. It wasn't so much.
Mhm.
Yeah.
Listen,
this won't do any good.
You'll never understand me. But I'll try once and then give it up.
The man's partner is killed. He's supposed to do something about it.
It doesn't make any difference what you thought of.
He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it.
And it happens. We're in the detective business
and one of your organization gets killed. It's,
it's bad business to let the killer get away with it.
Bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere you expect.
Me to think of these things. You're saying it sufficient reason for sending
me to
wait until I'm through. Then you can talk.
I have no earthly reason to think I can trust you.
And if I do this and get away with it,
you'll have something on me that you can use whenever you want to.
Since I've got something on you.
I couldn't be sure that you wouldn't put a hole in me someday.
All those are on one side.
Maybe some of them are unimportant. I won't argue about that.
Well, look at a number of them
and what have we got on the other side?
All we've got is that maybe you love me and
maybe I love you.
You know, whether you love me or not,
maybe I do,
I'll have some rotten nights after I've sent you over. But that'll pass.
If all I've said doesn't mean anything to you,
then forget it and we'll make it just this,
I won't because all of me wants to, regardless of consequences
and because you counted on that with me the same
as you counted on that with all the others.
Would you have done this to me if the f could have been real and you've got your money.
Don't be too sure. I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be.
I thought a reputation might be good business bringing high priced
jobs and making it easier to deal with the enemy.
But a lot more money would have been
one more item on your side of the scale.
If you'd loved me, you wouldn't have needed any more on that side.
Come in.
Hello, Tom.
Got him, got him
as well.
Here's another one for you. She killed miles
and I've got some exhibits.
The boy's guns, one of Cairo's and $1000 bill I was supposed to be bribed with
and this black statuette here that all the fuss was about.
What's the matter with your little playmate? He looks broken hearted
now. But when he heard Gutman's story, he thought he had me
cut it out. Sam.
Well, shall we be getting down to the hall?
Harry.
What is it?
They, uh,
stuff that dreams are made of?
Huh.