#kaspar Gutman

[hanssloane]

Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet as Joel Cairo and Kaspar Gutman

in The Maltese Falcon, 1941

Photograph, movie still

[noirgasmweetheart]

This convinced me to watch "I Was An Adventuress" and I really enjoyed it!

"if I had a nickel for everytime a Peter Lorre character had a dad and also a sister that wasn't actually his dad and sister" I count at least 3 if u count Ferret

Also:

[angelamontoo]

Idk where exactly I stand on whatever wilmers whole deal is in the maltese falcon, but rn I like to think he has abandonment issues and felt very unwanted by his parents-and people in general really, as a child and went on to project those issues onto Cairo and gutman. Not that I know of anything in the film or book that particularly supports this headcanon, but I think it would make the whole "I can always get another son" deal at the end suck extra hard for him

[glennk56]

Sydney Greenstreet. His whole film career took place in the 1940s. Of the 23 films he did, in all but 2 films he was billed no lower than sixth. And he was billed 4th of better in 18 of the 23. That is quite an impressive statistic for a chub actor. That means he had some box office appeal. It helped that his first role was his most famous as Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon. He was often paired with Peter Lorre in his films and since this was the 1940s, there could only be, at most, sexual ambiguity in the relationship between their two characters.

[angelamontoo]

WOO

I like this very much op!

Binging on Ds9 after a long day