Sam Spade (in "The Maltese Falcon") (archive footage) (uncredited)

film-makers versus the manipulations films have suffered from the origins of the cinema to the total domination of the audiovisual world. "Filmmakers vs. Tycoons" combines different types of film language: archive material, key fragments of films, and fictional scenes, such as that set in the Court of Felipe II when the Monarch cuts down a cinemascope picture by Titian on both sides because it doesn't fit into the space he had kept for it in El Escorial. The King of Spain thus became the inventor of panning-scanning which, in our time, alters the original format of films. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wanderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese Falcon. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.