Built out of words, it is the engine that drives the plot of his book and also the movie, in which another object is created: a prop that has to represent the thing that Hammett created out of words, inspired by the Kniphausen Hawk, and this represents the falcon in the movie.
Napravljena je od riječi i ona pokreće radnju. Tu je i film, u kojem je stvoren još jedan predmet: rekvizit koji predstavlja Hammettovog lika od riječi, koji je inspiriran kniphauserškim sokolom.