This 1941 John Huston film, based on the Dashiell Hammett novel, is one of the absolute classics of film noir. Humphrey Bogart stars, along with Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. TCM’s current documentary series import, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, recently made a brilliant connection between this movie and Chinatown – and not just that Huston wrote and directed Maltese Falcon and co-starred in the latter.