BBC R4 - The Maltese Falcon

BBC R4 - Dashiell Hammett's' The Maltese Falcon'

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell

Directed by Jane Morgan

Broadcast December 29, 1984

Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1



Thriller



San Francisco, 1928. When his partner is murdered

Sam  Spade is drawn into a plot involving a fat man,

a psychopath, a femme fatale and a black statuette

of a falcon.



Cast

Joel Cairo - Nickolas Grace

Sam Spade - Tom Wilkinson

Mr Gutman - Peter Vaughan

DA Bryan - Don Fellows

Lt Dundy - Harry Towb

Effie - Mia Soteriou

Wilmer - Peter Acre

Iva - Liza Ross

Tom Polhaus - Norman Jones

Miles Archer - William Hope

Taxi driver - Keith Edwards

Man with key - Arnold Diamond

Newspaperman - Robin Summers

Brigid O'Shaughnessy - Jane Lapotaire