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Post by mikef6 on Apr 19, 2017 1:16:13 GMT
Maybe a few more later when I have time to think about it. While you're thinking about it, Mike, your avatar might provide some inspiration. lol. Of course. I can miss things that are right under my nose, as My Lovely Wife frequently tells me. Bogie did redemption more than once. In more than one film he plays a character that was defined in “Casablanca” as the cynical, world (or war)-weary guy who doesn’t care for anyone except himself. “I stick my neck out for nobody.” Of course, this has all changed by the end of the film. He essayed full-fledged versions of this character in “To Have and Have Not,” “Key Largo,” and in his last film, “The Harder They Fall.” There are also elements of his first-detached then-committed character in “The Maltese Falcon,” “The Big Sleep,” and “Chain Lightning.” I should point out that in each of these, he makes indelible, individual people out of what could have been just another film in which he plays the Bogart Guy. And moving on to others I thought of: A couple of pre-Bogart war-beaten pessimists who achieve redemption: Leslie Howard in "The Petrified Forest" (redemption is dealt out by Bogart, himself) Melvyn Douglas in "The Old Dark House" Others Takashi Shimura in “Ikiru” Bette Davis in "Jezebel" Bette Davis in "Dark Victory" Joseph Calleia in "Five Came Back" Rod Steiger in "Back From Eternity" That's all for now. I'll let somebody else name some.  |
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