Satan Met a Lady
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| Directed by | William Dieterle |
| Produced by | Henry Blanke |
| Screenplay by | Brown Holmes |
| Based on |
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett |
| Starring |
Bette Davis Warren William |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Warren Low |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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74 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis.
The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1929 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, (Original publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1929.) which was previously filmed five years earlier, Pre-Code, under its original title directed by Roy Del Ruth and would be remade again five years later by director John Huston with Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
Private detective Ted Shane returns to work with his former partner Ames, who is not particularly happy about the situation because his wife Astrid dated Ted before they were wed.
Valerie Purvis hires the detectives to locate a man called Farrow, and when both Ames and Farrow are found dead, Shane is suspected of both murders.
Shane finds his office and apartment have been ransacked and his secretary Miss Murgatroyd has been locked in a closet by Anthony Travers, who is in search of an 8th-century ram's horn rumored to be filled with jewels. Madame Barabbas is also searching for the treasure and sends a gunman to bring Shane to her.
Working all sides of the street, Shane makes deals with each of them to find the horn, and eventually winds up in possession of a package allegedly containing it, but it turns out to be full of sand instead of jewels.
The police round up all the suspects, but Shane and Valerie escape. He baits her into confessing to Ames's murder and tries to apprehend her for the $10,000 reward, but Valerie thwarts him by allowing a washroom attendant to turn her in to the police instead. Miss Murgatroyd then shows up and claims Shane for her own.
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