The Maltese Falcon
Set in San Francisco in the late 1920s, The Maltese Falcon follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade, whose life is upended after a mysterious woman hires his agency and his partner is soon murdered.
Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett
Original Broadcast: BBC Radio 4, 29 December 1984 Cast
Sam Spade — Tom Wilkinson
Brigid O’Shaughnessy — Jane Lapotaire
Kasper Gutman — Peter Vaughan
Joel Cairo — Nickolas Grace
Effie Perine — Mia Soteriou
Miles Archer — William Hope
Iva Archer — Liza Ross
Wilmer Cook — Peter Acre
Tom Polhaus — Norman Jones
Lieutenant Dundy — Harry Towb
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