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Post by cynthiagreen on Jun 3, 2020 23:05:10 GMT
Hmm... well musical or not it certainly counts. And it is probably better recalled than June's entire back catalogue. Whiich is a shame really - She had a major cinema star run for 15 years - posterity has not been kind ("she makes strong men cringe" D Shipman ) , although possibly a late career move into appearing in TV adverts for incontinence pads may not be a wise move if posterity is your game. I guess the girl next door is no longer next door.
Anyway - as Bogart appears to have kept any musical talent he may have had to himself here is June at her best
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 5, 2020 16:44:18 GMT
In A Lonely Place (1950)"In her essay "Humphrey and Bogey", Louise Brooks wrote that more than any other role that Humphrey Bogart played, it was the role of Dixon Steele in this movie that came closest to the real Bogart she knew."
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 5, 2020 18:39:43 GMT
The Enforcer / Bretaigne Windust and Raoul Walsh (uncredited) (1951). Something of a “lost” Humphrey Bogart film. “The Enforcer” was the film released immediately after “In A Lonely Place” and just before “Sirocco” and “The African Queen” yet it did not get a home video release until 2013. It is a crackling, suspenseful film courtesy of unbilled director Raoul Walsh who stepped in early during production after assigned director Windust became ill. Walsh’s fingerprints are all over this movie. This is reputed to be the first movie to use words like “contract” and “hit” as used in gangster lingo. Bogie plays Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson who is almost on the eve of taking a master criminal to trial when his major witness – a stoolie – dies. He and his head investigator (Roy Roberts) sit up all night going over the case, which we see in flashback with flashbacks within the flashback. Ferguson has a tickle that tells him he missed some small clue. I won’t dare tip the ending but when Bogart solves the case, sees the small detail he missed, and speeds away to prevent another killing it is very thrilling. Great Reveal. Great action ending. Even exhilarating. “The Enforcer” was shot by Robert Burks who would go on to be director of photography for 10 straight Hitchcock master works from “Dial M For Murder” (1954) thru “Marnie” (1964) winning an Oscar for “To Catch A Thief” (1955) along the way. Zero Mostel plays an incompetent low-level hood who Ferguson gets to squeal. Mostel was being blacklisted even as filming was proceeding. He didn’t make another movie until “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum” in 1966. Former western star Bob Steele who had played mob hitman Canino and faced Humphrey Bogart in “The Big Sleep,” plays what might be a close relative of Canino. He goes up against Bogart again with the expected result. King Donovan is a detective and Jack Lambert is a hitman who is often confined to an asylum. Highly recommended. Jack Lambert and Zero Mostel Roy Roberts, Bogart, King Donovan
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 5, 2020 18:48:21 GMT
mikef6 One to keep an eye out for ... thanks for the post(s) and the recommend!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 7, 2020 22:13:07 GMT
The Barefoot Contessa as Harry Dawes (1954)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 7, 2020 23:51:43 GMT
manfromplanetx Beat 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 ..... I know exactly what you mean. For twenty or more years, I felt the same way about this film, but kept giving it another chance every five years or so, and on maybe the fifth try, it finally clicked for me. In the same way as explaining a joke is often little help in making it funny, it's hard to express how or why it happened, except to say that the whole thing is absurdist, tongue-in-cheek satire. I might compare it in tone to A Fish Called Wanda (another of those "you get it or you don't" movies). When watching Beat the Devil now, I rather imagine the cast struggling to hold it in while playing it in such dead earnest during a take, and then bursting into laughter as soon as Huston called "Cut." I don't know how well I've articulated any of that, but that's how it was for me. And I'm glad I kept revisiting it, because it was worth it, and it now thoroughly charms me.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 8, 2020 0:10:42 GMT
Doghouse6 I got Wanda on the first watching and still enjoy it. Keep trying with BtD but, so far ... nada. We tend to like / dislike the same kinda movies so there seems to be hope ... eventaully ! May try again come winter
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 15, 2020 20:38:42 GMT
The Desperate Hours (1955) Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household. Director: William WylerIMDb Trivia: After the movie previewed, Humphrey Bogart told director William Wyler, "I think I'm too old to play gangsters". "Bogart's last tough guy role"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 22, 2020 14:45:25 GMT
Sirocco (1951) A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 29, 2020 2:34:55 GMT
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