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Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis and Warren William. [1] The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1929 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett .
Satan Met a Lady: Directed by William Dieterle. With Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Arthur Treacher. A double-crossing woman, the two-timing P.I. she hired, the corpulent "empress of crime", and a gentleman thief are all after a legendary priceless eighth-century ram's horn.
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Warner Bros. infamous, second adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, just five years after its first, Satan Met A Lady features a number of arguably eccentric changes to Hammett’s classic Sam Spade mystery, including a name change for Spade (Ted Shane) and the substitution of a jewel-filled ram’s horn for The Maltese Falcon ...
Oct 24, 2014 · And all sorts of people want the 'French horn'... but Shane is one jump ahead of everyone all the way. Well, almost. Welcome to the Fandango MOVIECLIPS Trailer Vault Channel. Where trailers from ...
In this early, comedic version of "The Maltese Falcon," jaded gumshoe Ted Shane (Warren William) is hired by enigmatic Valerie Purvis (Bette Davis) to find a man who spurned her. When Shane's ...
A double-crossing woman, the two-timing P.I. she hired, the corpulent "empress of crime", and a gentleman thief are all after a legendary priceless eighth-century ram's horn. Sardonic detective Shane, thrown out of one town for bringing trouble, heads for home and his ex-partner's detective agency.
