Post by Salzmank on Apr 27, 2017 18:27:22 GMT
Conventional: The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Somewhat Less Conventional: Passage to Marseille, The Caine Mutiny, To Have and Have Not, The Barefoot Contessa (I would have put Across the Pacific on this list instead of Passage to Marseille if it were here.)
I'm choosing those instead of some possibly more celebrated Bogie performances in The African Queen (fun but overrated--more slow-moving and less amusing than I had expected), Key Largo (best thing about it is Eddie G.), and High Sierra (I'm just not that fond of it, unfortunately, though Lupino's superb).
I'm a big fan of Angels with Dirty Faces, but, as this is a Bogie poll and Bogie's something of a bit player in that one, I'll leave it off this list.
And a shout-out to Return of Dr. X, a terrible-but-very-fun movie, with a wildly miscast Bogart, that telegonus , mikef6 , and I were discussing on another thread.
The whole film is a camp romp. I love it, even Bodie's terrible Irish accent. What was with Hollywood casting directors? I mean, what's up with Bogie's lousy Mexican accent in Virginia City? Or, later, Charlton Heston's complete lack of a try at a Mexican accent in Touch of Evil?
On a serious note, I should also write that I might have included Dark Passage. (What's with all of these "dark" films? And they say film noir isn't a genre!
) Unintentionally funny in places, but the Bogie-Bacall rapport is as good as always, and the subjective camera gimmick is far, far better handled than in Robert Montgomery's unbelievably mediocre Lady in the Lake adaptation.