Opinion
By Al Riley
Do you remember Joel Cairo?
He was the conflicted, tragic, and often unwitting antagonist who worked for the mysterious, obsessive, and disloyal character Casper Gutman in the literary and cinema classic The Maltese Falcon. The myriad characters in Dashiell Hammett’s classic story all have interesting and conflicting personas. Ultimately, the antagonists are all untrustworthy, devoid of moral character, and play each other for their selfish ends.
But Cairo is a character…
