The Three Sam Spades The Shifting Model of American Masculinity in the Three Films of The Maltese Falcon

Like William Powell, Warren William had a history of playing villains. William as 'Spade' (here Shayne) in Dieterle's Satan Met a Lady (1936) was an attempt to repeat the success of Powell's role in another Hammett adaptation, The Thin Man (1934). Courtesy of Photofest.