Since the days of Sherlock Holmes, detective fiction has dominated Hollywood, but the 1970s featured one masterpiece after ...

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade talking to another man in the final scene of The Maltese Falcon (1941). Image via Warner Bros. The detective noir serves as the heart and soul of the classic film noir ...

In the 1970s, there was no shortage of great detective movies. However, that decade was also notable for its proliferation of a very specific kind of detective film: the Private Eye tale. Hard-nosed ...