The Dryden will screen The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, U.S. 1941, 100 min., 35mm) as part of the Noir Effect series.

Considered by many as the first film noir, this Dashiell Hammett adaptation is the film that launched director John Huston's career. Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade, the hard-living private eye following his own code of justice, treading the fine line between darkness and light. The cast of fully realized and appealing characters operates in an underworld of greed and deceit, laying the groundwork for a new type of crime film, recognized today as one of the greatest classics of all time.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2016-Dec-27]