12 years after his role as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart starred in Beat the Devil, an underrated parody of the 1941 classic. Directed by John Huston, The Maltese Falcon has a ...
Bogart plays a gangster, which became a common type of character for the actor early in his film career, while Davis takes on a more subdued role than the ones she would later become famous for.