This bird statue, dubbed the Maltese Falcon, has since evolved into an unforgettable MacGuffin, where the value of the actual prop skyrocketed over the years, changing several hands while being ...

A statuette featured in 1941 detective thriller “The Maltese Falcon” sold for more than $4 million at auction Monday. The final price on the 45-pound, 12-inch-tall prop was $4,085,000 ...

NEW YORK – A statuette of a bird featured in the classic 1941 detective thriller "The Maltese Falcon" sold for more ... 12-inch-tall prop was $4,085,000, according to Bonham's auction house.

The Maltese Falcon statue has been sold for more than $4 million. "The final price on the 12-inch-tall prop was $4,085,000, which includes a buyer's premium," the AP reports. The source of the ...

Nine months after someone snatched a replica of the Maltese Falcon from its perch ... was one of the two falcon prop statues used in the movie, and in 1994, he went back to New York to bid on ...

Hollywood is full of tales about iconic movie props that were lost, stolen, or have otherwise simply gone missing. In the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart’s Sam Spade embarks on a ...

The famous lead prop in the film “The Maltese Falcon” sold for $4.1 million at a New York auction in 2013. Featured prominently in the 1941 noir film, the statue’s mystique as “the stuff ...

The Maltese Falcon, however, is blessedly lacking in psychological ... in the fact that the telephone is used as a suspense prop — conversations through the receiver coming across as faint ...