Huston made his directorial debut withThe Maltese Falcon, which ranks as one ofthe best detective noir films.

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Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon

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Humphrey Bogart standing next to Gina Lollobrigida in Beat the Devil (1953)

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Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle and Ida Lupino as Marie sitting in a car in ‘High Sierra’

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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Key Largo looking at the camera.

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Charlie and Rose, played by Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen

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Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet as Sam, Joel, Ruth Wonderly, and Kasper looking at the Maltese Falcon in ‘The Maltese Falcon’

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Two men smiling while sitting behind a rock, wearing traditional Western movie clothes

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