The Cowardly Countenance of Elisha Cook Jr
One day after writing about Humphrey Bogart we are delighted to contribute a birthday squib on Elija Cook Jr (1903-1995) who played Wilmer, the mean-spirited punk who Bogart gets the better of several times in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Cook had a weak, worried looking face, with pale blue eyes that registered terror like nobody’s […]