The Maltese Falcon is an American mystery film noir theatrical film directed by John Huston released in 1941.
Westphall connections to The Maltese Falcon[]
The titular statuette has shown up in numerous films and television series:
- Arrow "Legends of Yesterday"
- Footsteps in the Dark
- Perry Mason "The Case of the Capering Camera"
- Riptide "Raiders of the Lost Sub"
- Sherlock Holmes in New York
- The Singing Detective
- Sledge Hammer! "Play it Again Sledge"
- Warehouse 13 "Duped"
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (It was seen in glass form alongside glass replicas of famous real-life sculptures such as Constantin Brâncuși's Bird in Space, implying that the Maltese Falcon is a famous non-cinematic work of art in this universe)
- The falcon is mentioned among a list of real treasures in Tales of the Gold Monkey "Legends Are Forever".
- The Falcon is also alluded to in The Avengers "Legacy of Death", when character Sydney Street is asked if there is another object worth stealing he says "...a certain bird, a statuette thing, Maltese I believe, belonging... er... to some brothers".
- In Pulp, a living falcon (not a statue) appears, and a character identifies it as a Maltese Falcon, presumably a species of falcon that inspired the statuette.
The fictional San Francisco Post-Dispatch newspaper which reports on cases in this film also appears in Shadow of a Doubt.