Back at his office, Spade encounters Joel Cairo, a mysterious man who offers him $5,000 to find a black figure of a bird. When Spade later tells O'Shaughnessy about Cairo, it becomes clear the two ...

"And his portrayal of Joel Cairo is sneeringly homophobic. But you have to stop for a second, put yourself back in 1929 and adopt the point of view that existed at the time and take it for what it ...

That line about $5,000, movie fans will know, is said by "Joel Cairo" ... Update at 6:45 p.m. ET: The Falcon Lands A Buyer. The Maltese Falcon statue has been sold for more than $4 million.

Referring to Reed Johnson’s article [“The Language of Desire,” Feb. 15], another way to look at “gayness” in “The Maltese Falcon” is the Joel Cairo character played by Peter Lorre ...

Memories of the oft-viewed Bogart version of the story linger for about three seconds as Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” comes to life on the Butterfield 8 stage. The theatrical ...

Oily Joel Cairo. Lovely but duplicitous Brigid O'Shaughnessy. The sinister fat man Casper Gutman and his ambiguous gunsel Wilmer. And of course laconic Sam Spade, the archetypal PI. The cast of ...

A 1953 comedy saw Humphrey Bogart star in a parody film that paid tribute to one of the greatest movies in his career, over a decade later.

But "The Maltese Falcon" had so many of the other elements already in place, too: the colloquial dialogue, ... Joel Cairo, B-movie helper Elisha Cook Jr. as his young thug boyfriend, ...