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Who played detective Sam Spade in John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon?
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John Huston
John Huston (left) on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
In John Huston’s 1941 film adaptation of The Maltese Falcon, the detective Sam Spade was played by Humphrey Bogart.12