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Post by Isapop on Oct 7, 2021 11:13:56 GMT
A true milestone.
And here is the question:
Humphrey Bogart suspects the person he's sure he murdered is still alive in what movie?
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Post by AcousticBlues77 on Oct 7, 2021 12:01:23 GMT
Conflict
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Post by Isapop on Oct 7, 2021 12:31:42 GMT
YES, THAT'S THE MOVIE! And it's amusing that, of all people, it is Sidney Greenstreet who uncovers Bogie's foul deed.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 7, 2021 13:50:10 GMT
One thing I admire about Humphrey Bogart is that he never “phoned in” a performance. “Conflict” was a movie Bogart didn’t want to make yet he gives a committed performance.
He fought off Jack Warner’s arguments and threats of punishment as well as pressure from others until his friend and mentor Leslie Howard’s plane was shot down over the Atlantic during the war. Grieving, Bogart decided that life was too short to sweat the small stuff, so he agreed on “Conflict” (but remained grumpy during the shoot). At this remove, it is hard to understand his dissatisfaction with this mystery noir from a story co-written by Robert Siodmak, a noir directing legend.
NOTE: Someone might notice that “Conflict” was released in 1945, two years after Howard’s death. The answer is that “Conflict” was filmed in 1943 but the opening was delayed until the later year.
Info from the definitive Life, Bogart by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax (1997).
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Post by Isapop on Oct 7, 2021 14:15:32 GMT
“Conflict” was a movie Bogart didn’t want to make I'm going to guess that after finally breaking through as the "good guy" to movie audiences, he didn't relish going back so quickly to the "bad guy".
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 7, 2021 14:49:16 GMT
NOTE: Someone might notice that “Conflict” was released in 1945, two years after Howard’s death. The answer is that “Conflict” was filmed in 1943 but the opening was delayed until the later year. Something similar happened with Bogart's second "homicidal husband" thriller, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, which wrapped production only the week after Conflict's June '45 release, but was kept on the shelf until March of '47. Hard to figure what was going on with Warner execs during that period.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 7, 2021 15:05:47 GMT
“Conflict” was a movie Bogart didn’t want to make I'm going to guess that after finally breaking through as the "good guy" to movie audiences, he didn't relish going back so quickly to the "bad guy". That's it exactly.
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