Joel Cairo

I'm like, I can really hear a lot of Peter Lorre.

It's not that kind of weedling Peter Lorre, like sneaking in the shadows Peter Lorre, but more like, you know, just a regular Joel Cairo kind of voice.

I, yeah, I was like, okay, yeah, I can really hear that.

And then I couldn't unhear it.

She was a very, very lesbian-y, villainous character.

Maltese Falcon was also from that decade where Peter Lorre played Joel Cairo, who was very, very queer-coded.

And then moving into the 50s and 60s, queer desire is more associated with like obsession, repression, psychological disturbance, and violence, right? And for more context, the Hays Code ended in 1968.

But it is during this time period that we got another Hitchcock film, Strangers on a Train, which we're going to talk about, so let's not spend too much time there.