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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 1, 2020 15:22:46 GMT
A Group Album Activity - One film per page please so they can be "*"ed as they are posted Essays, images and comments, as always, are welcome and encouraged. Entry of same film by multiple posters is fine. Please label with film title if not including a poster. Need not be in chronological order
1956 – The Harder They Fall (Eddie Willis) * 1955 – We’re No Angels (Joseph) * 1955 – The Desperate Hours (Glenn Griffin) * 1955 – The Left Hand of God (Jim Carmody) * 1954 – The Barefoot Contessa (Harry Dawes) * 1954 – Sabrina (Linus Larrabee) * 1954 – The Caine Mutiny (Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg) * 1953 – Beat the Devil (Billy Dannreuther) * 1953 – Battle Circus (Maj. Jed Webbe) * 1952 – Deadline – U.S.A. (Ed Hutcheson, Managing Editor of The Day) * 1951 – The African Queen (Charlie Allnut) * 1951 – Sirocco (Harry Smith) * 1951 – The Enforcer (Dist. Atty. Martin Ferguson) * 1950 – Chain Lightning (Lt. Col. Matt Brennan) * 1950 – In a Lonely Place (Dixon Steele) "
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 1, 2020 15:30:27 GMT
"An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 1, 2020 15:34:38 GMT
1955 – We’re No Angels "Three Devil's Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises. An offbeat "Christmas Movie" Included among the American Film Institute's list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 1, 2020 15:34:51 GMT
Saw seven of these thus far. I liked The African Queen, Sabrina, Beat the Devil, and The Harder They Fall. Didn't really enjoy In a Lonely Place but that one does feature one of his very best peformances. Sirocco was honestly boring. The Caine Mutiny was only okay.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 1, 2020 15:45:40 GMT
Deadline - U.S.A. / Richard Brooks (1952). Twentieth Century Fox. Cinematography by Milton R. Krasner. Back in his apprentice days, Bogart had to wait behind actors like Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney and George Raft for lead roles. He faced the same situation here. Studio head Daryll Zanuck wanted either Gregory Peck or Richard Widmark to play the high-powered newspaper managing editor Ed Hutcheson against director Brooks’ preference for Humphrey Bogart. Even though Bogart had just returned from the location shoot of “The African Queen,” that picture had not yet earned the acclaim that would later come so Bogart’s recent resume didn’t look so hot. But Brooks held out, got what he wanted, and Bogie rules. This fast-talking adventure has more than one deadline approaching. The venerable old newspaper – based on the New York World founded by Joseph Pulitzer – is about to be sold to a competitor who is sure to shut it down. Before that can happen, the investigative reporters have to gather enough solid evidence to print a story that will bring down gangster Tomas Rienzi (Martin Gable). As great as Bogart is, Ethel Barrymore nearly walks away with the movie – at least, the scenes she is in. She plays the widow of the paper’s founder. It is her greedy grown children who are selling out. Kim Hunter plays Hutcheson’s ex-wife. Both Hunter and Bogart picked up Oscars in March 1952 (for 1951 films), just about the time that “Deadline - U.S.A.” was opening. Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, and Paul Stewart all do great work. One last comment about Bogart: in his first scene, he ties a bow tie for us in close-up. About that, the DVD commentator said, “Bogart also demonstrates the proper way to wear a bow tie. It is a fact that no human being in all of recorded history wore the bow tie better than Bogart.” Amen, brother. The Bow Tie
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jun 1, 2020 16:16:37 GMT
Very fond of this one - wildly implausible assumed identity farrago with Bogart as a priest (not really!), gorgeous Gene Tierney getting hot and bothered as missionary's daughter guilty of fancying a man of god .... and the cherry on top being Lee J Cobb as a local Chinese warlord
My childhood 60s & 70s UK TV watching meant I saw an awful lot of colorful 50s potboilers like this one, as they were a staple of Saturday teatime viewing.
I gather Tierney had a breakdown during production (it was her last as a "star") and Bogart helped her get through it by feeding her her lines.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 1, 2020 16:30:14 GMT
The Caine Mutiny (1955)A personal favorite for many reasons. "Humphrey Bogart's tour-de-force performance in the climactic courtroom scene was so powerful, that it completely captivated the onlooking film technicians and crewmen. After the scene's completion, the company gave Bogart a round of thunderous applause."
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 1, 2020 22:34:53 GMT
Deadline – U.S.A. is a long time personal favourite. In a Lonely Place gets better with each viewing. The Caine Mutiny is one of my favourite novels. Movie not quite as good, but has some great scenes.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 2, 2020 16:43:18 GMT
Sabrina (1954) "A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her." Another fun "forever" Bogart. Tons of trivia here
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 2, 2020 18:14:38 GMT
Chain Lightning / Stuart Heisler (1950). This film is probably the closest that Humphrey Bogart ever got to science fiction (although he had dabbled in what we now call "horror"). Some of the flying that Bogie’s character, test pilot Matt Brennen, does was theoretically possible in 1950, but the story stretches current reality a bit in the heights and speeds Brennen achieves. Most of the external and user reviews I read seem to not think much of this film. While it is surely Lesser Bogart, I think the pluses outweigh the minuses. The script is pretty weak in places, especially the romance between Brennen and Jo Holloway, played by Eleanor Parker. There is a small “Casablanca” vibe as we see the two parted by WWII only to coincidentally meet again when Brennen is recruited by jet plane manufacturer Raymond Massey. They want to get back together except Jo has already hooked up with a jet airplane designer (Richard Whorf). On the plus side, the second half of the story successfully combines a couple of good plot twists. First is an exciting and suspenseful experiment – Bogie flying from Nome, Alaska to D.C. – over the North Pole (the first to do so) - in four hours. Second, is the Bogart trope of the man seemingly in the game for himself but, when the chips are down, does the right thing. Nobody does that better than Humphrey Bogart. So, I liked “Chain Lightning” more than common consensus, but it may just be my Bias For Bogie. FUN FACT: “Chain Lightning” was Bogart’s last picture under contract to Warner Brothers to whom he had been the exclusive property since “The Petrified Forest” in 1936. Bogart became a free agent and soon started his own production company.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 2, 2020 18:40:29 GMT
Melville Goodwin, USA as Melville Goodwin
It never got further than screen tests.
Under the title "Melville Goodwin, USA", the film was to star Bogart and Lauren Bacall - both of whom had already filmed costume and makeup tests - but Bogart's terminal illness forced his withdrawal from the project. He was replaced by Kirk Douglas. Bacall withdrew shortly afterward, opting instead to remain at home with her dying husband, and was replaced by Susan Hayward.
They also changed the title to Top Secret Affair 1957
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 2, 2020 20:58:18 GMT
1951 – The African Queen (Charlie Allnut) The cause of my life long aversion to leeches
Bogart found GOLD at last !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 2, 2020 20:59:43 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 2, 2020 23:09:03 GMT
Beat The Devil (1953) Dir. John Huston. Entertaining adventure comedy film starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida, and supported by Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. he script. Apparently written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, the story concerns the adventures of a motley crew of characters trying to claim land rich in mineral deposits in Kenya, meanwhile they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard a tramp steamer en-route to Mombasa.. Bogart , Jones , Lollobrigida , cinematographer Oswald Morris BSC
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 2, 2020 23:18:14 GMT
manfromplanetxBeat the Devil is the one Bogart movie I have seen and, try though I might, I just do not get ! I recall a discussion on the olde board which was finalized with a "ya either love it or hate it" stalemate. Terrific cast and all but .....
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 3, 2020 22:20:30 GMT
(1953) Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world. Director: Richard Brooks www.imdb.com/title/tt0045544/?ref_=ttmi_ttTrivia: The film originally had a different title but the studio and the director thought that title would mislead audiences, so "Battle Circus" was instead chosen. The original title that was rejected was "MASH 66," which referred to the same Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in the Korean War later made famous in both the film MASH (1970) and the TV series M*A*S*H (1972). The opening scene in the TV series pays homage to the one in Battle Circus complete with helicopter landing at camp.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jun 3, 2020 22:42:53 GMT
(1953) Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world. Director: Richard Brooks www.imdb.com/title/tt0045544/?ref_=ttmi_ttTrivia: The film originally had a different title but the studio and the director thought that title would mislead audiences, so "Battle Circus" was instead chosen. The original title that was rejected was "MASH 66," which referred to the same Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in the Korean War later made famous in both the film MASH (1970) and the TV series M*A*S*H (1972). The opening scene in the TV series pays homage to the one in Battle Circus complete with helicopter landing at camp.
I I have read that Bogart roared with laughter when told he was to co-star with June allyson (I think the much less incongruous Shelley Winters was original choice but had to pass). I must say It wasn't half as bad as I imagined - 5/10 - and I have to say I found the sight of June talking down an escaped Korean prisoner holding an unexploded grenade as mesmerising as a rabbit being hypnotised by a cobra. No malarkey with cigarettes and knowing how to whistle from June, unlike some of his previous co-stars. Sadly the grenade incident isn't on youtube but here is a pic of our swoonsome twosome. Aren't they adorable?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 3, 2020 22:46:55 GMT
cynthiagreen "our swoonsome twosome." <---- This was the only MGM picture that Bogart made or we may possibly have seen more of this cute couple !
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jun 3, 2020 22:54:39 GMT
cynthiagreen "our swoonsome twosome." <---- This was the only MGM picture that Bogart made or we may possibly have seen more of this cute couple ! They could have been the new Mickey and Judy - (and Van Johnson may just as well have retired...!) One of those great classic movie might have been fantasy pipe dreams.... like a full cut of AMBERSONS or a completed I CLAUDIUS or a mint copy of THE DRAGNET turning up in someone's attic... Did we ever see Bogart putting on a show in a barn? The only thing remotely musical I can recall him doing is SWING YOUR LADY, which I gather he hated although I quite liked it. THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS doesn't count as he didn't sing or dance.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 3, 2020 22:57:59 GMT
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