On this day, December 26, 1903, Elisha Cook Jr. was born.

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Actor Elisha Cook Jr. was #BornOnThisDay Dec. 26, 1903. Remembered for his numerous #noir films: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Phantom Lady (1944), Born to Kill (1947), Shane (1953), & Rosemary's Baby (1968).Passed in 1993 (age 91) from a #stoke. #RIP #noiralley #GoneButNotForgotten

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Surely he's remembered for this role more than any other:

The Maltese Falcon (5/10) Movie CLIP - Mighty Funny (1941) HD

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Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) proposes that Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) should make his gunsel, Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.), the fall guy for the murders.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, John Huston, a long-established screenwriter making his directorial debut, got it right, simply by adhering as closely as possible to the original. Taking over from a recalcitrant George Raft, Humphrey Bogart achieved true stardom as Sam Spade, a hard-boiled San Francisco private eye who can be as unscrupulous as the next guy but also adheres to his own personal code of honor. Into the offices of the Spade & Archer detective agency sweeps a Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor), who offers a large retainer to Sam and his partner Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) if they'll protect her from someone named Floyd Thursby. The detectives believe neither Miss Wonderly nor her story, but they believe her money. Since Archer saw her first, he takes the case -- and later that evening he is shot to death, as is the mysterious Thursby. Miss Wonderly's real name turns out to be Brigid O'Shaughnessey, and, as the story continues, Sam is also introduced to the effeminate Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) and the fat, erudite Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet, in his film debut). It turns out that Brigid, Cairo and Gutman are all international scoundrels, all involved in the search for a foot-high, jewel-encrusted statuette in the shape of a falcon. Though both Cairo and Gutman offer Spade small fortunes to find the "black bird," they are obviously willing to commit mayhem and murder towards that goal: Gutman, for example, drugs Spade and allows his "gunsel" Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) to kick and beat the unconscious detective. This classic film noir detective yarn gets better with each viewing, which is more than can be said for the first two Maltese Falcons and the ill-advised 1975 "sequel" The Black Bird.

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1941)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Elisha Cook Jr., Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor
Director: John Huston
Producers: Henry Blanke, Hal B. Wallis
Screenwriters: John Huston, Dashiell Hammett

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The Maltese Falcon (6/10) Movie CLIP - There's Our Fall Guy (1941) HD

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Sam (Humphrey Bogart) proposes to Kasper (Sydney Greenstreet) that Joel (Peter Lorre) take the roll of the fall guy, but Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) "steps up" to the position.

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The Maltese Falcon (7/10) Movie CLIP - There's Only One Maltese Falcon (1941) HD

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Kasper (Sydney Greenstreet) explains to Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) that he's turning him in as the fall guy for the Maltese Falcon. He then warns Sam (Humphrey Bogart) to be careful in dealings with Brigid (Mary Astor).

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Mon Dec 25, 2023: On this day, December 25, 1899, Humphrey Bogart was born.

Tue Dec 27, 2022: December 27: Six degrees of Humphrey Bogart. Our players: Hoagy Carmichael and Sydney Greenstreet

Thu Dec 27, 2018: December 27: Six degrees of Humphrey Bogart

[Walleye]

1. I love Elijah Cook. He's unique. He got a lot of work in the 50s in TV

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2. "The Killing," 1956

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George (Elisha Cook Jr.) lets the heist plan slip to his wife, Sherry (Marie Windsor), in an attempt to please her.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with an inexpensive cast. In a variation of his Asphalt Jungle role, Sterling Hayden plays veteran criminal Johnny Clay, planning one last big heist before settling down to a respectable marriage with Fay (Colleen Gray). Teaming with several cohorts, Johnny masterminds a racetrack robbery. The basic flaw is that all the crooks involved are losers and small-timers who find themselves in way over their heads despite their supposed cleverness. None of the participants is more pathetic than George Peatty (Elisha Cook Jr.), who is goaded into the robbery by his covetous and far-from-faithful wife (Marie Windsor). As in a Greek tragedy, Johnny's best-laid schemes go awry. Prominently featured in the cast of The Killing are offbeat character actors Tim Carey and Joe Turkel, who'd show up with equally showy roles in future Kubrick productions. The Killing is based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1956)
Cast: Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producers: James B. Harris, Alexander Singer
Screenwriters: Jim Thompson, Stanley Kubrick

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[Walleye]

3. I'll have to see if I can find that one, Marie Windsor is very good in these roles