This movie is, of course, an out-and-out masterpiece that anyone with a taste for it should watch a few times during their lifetime. (As if you didn't know that already!) But this comment is about the features: just to say they're not real features. Other than the trailers for a few contemporary films, there's only one feature. It's a commentary overdubbed over the film as it progresses, but it's really about this and that character actor (Ward Bond, for instance) and his career and relationship to Bogart, or someone else. Nothing about the film itself. A few quaint notes here and there about a poster in the background in this particular scene that advertises a Bogie flick that was his very worst; or about how only in a single wordless scene, where his partner gets shot, does Sam Spade not appear onscreen. Etc.

A stylistic piece of workmanship. (Supposedly) touted as the first of the film noir genre. Bogart was larger than life. The entire cast was superb, notably the 'humbugging' Greenstreet, and the sniveling Lorre. A helluva directorial debut for John Huston. FIVE STARS.

A good film with a bit of a let down concerning the solution to the mystery.

One of the best films ever, period. Bogart at his finest, and he's surrounded by a brilliant cast.

Considered to be the best film noir ever produced. And John Huston made this as a first time director. "This is the stuff that dreams are made of."

A classic!! See it.

A++ all the way for this movie!!!!

Considered by many to be the best film noir ever made. This movie and the movie Julia got me to read 3 or 4 of Dashiell Hammett's novels plus read a biography of Hammett. I myself consider Chinatown to be closest to this one in excellence, with the full essence of film noir.

This was the second remaking of the film, and this one sticks the closest to the original atmosphere of Hammett's novel. Bogart's performance is outstanding. Sydney Greenstreet made his movie debut in this one (in his 60's;before he was a stage actor). He was petrified to be in front of the camera-but you would never guess. Huston's direction is excellent. Noir at its finest.

The 3-disc edition also contains an extra audio track with commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax, two earlier adaptations made from the original novel, "Warner Night at the Movies 1941" with a 'Short Subjects Gallery' presenting a vintage newsreel, Technicolor musical short "The Gay Parisian", and the classic cartoons "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" and "Meet John Doughboy". As if that's not enough, there' also an audio-only bonus: 3 radio show adaptations including a version starring Edward G. Robinson.