Sex, lies and murder is the seductive tone that created the visually stimulating art form of cinema that began in the 1940s with The Maltese Falcon ... Bogart and set off a chain of mainstream ...

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Like the title relic in The Maltese Falcon, the boy is wanted by an eclectic ... and ties into French colonialism in a story that’s been set with France’s war with Algeria as a backdrop.

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