Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis.The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, which was previously filmed five years earlier, Pre-Code, under its original title and would be remade again five years later by director John Huston with Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.