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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Of the novel, as well as two previous film adaptations.
** The Bogart film is an exceptional adaptation. Virtually the sole difference between novel and movie is that the sex (hetero- and homosexual) is ''slightly'' more explicit in the book.
* [[Award Snub]]: Its failure to win Best Picture for 1941 ''would'' be understandable, as it was up against no less a cinematic classic than ''[[Citizen Kane]]''... Except that one [[How Green Was My Valley|didn't win]] either.
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: The characters rave about what a beauty Mary Astor's character was. Judge for yourself. 
* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|The Falcon is a fake.}}
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]: Spade's one upping of the villains. The guy always keeps his cool.
** Also, when Spade quickly and easily disarms the hotheaded gunman, Wilmer, taking his pistols. He later ridicules Wilmer about it, claiming that "A crippled newsie took them from him. I made him give them back."
* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: Joel Cairo, whose effeminate actions were supposed to creep out a 1940s audience but these days it just labels him as an outsider.
** The fact that the 1941 film is set during a time when homosexuals were being murdered by the Nazis, and Cairo is clearly a foreigner with an Eastern European accent, makes him even more sympathetic. 
* [[Vindicated by History]]

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