It's hard to read “The Maltese Falcon” without wincing at the way hard-boiled detective Sam Spade treats women. ... "And his portrayal of Joel Cairo is sneeringly homophobic.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet in their roles as Sam Spade, Joel Cairo, Brigid O Shaughnessy and Casper Gutman. Chronicle File Photo Dashiell Hammett in Hollywood ...