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...program with arguably the first and the best film noir. Legendary director John Huston (Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) debuts with his own adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic pulp fiction novel of the same name. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective, Sam Spade (Bogart), goes head to head in search for the elusive statuette against the femme fatale (Astor), the “fat man” (Greenstreet), and his fair-weather partner (Lorre). It was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay) and deserved...
Sixty years ago, LAUREN BACALL showed Humphrey Bogart how to whistle. At the Venice Film Festival last week, the husky-voiced screen veteran showed attendees how to handle hot air. While publicizing the film Birth, Bacall, 80, was asked by a reporter how it felt to work with her co-star, fellow "legend" NICOLE KIDMAN, 37. Bacall, who also shared the screen with the waifish Cold Mountain star in last year's Dogville, replied that "[Kidman's] not a legend. She's a beginner." The dig seemed to be aimed more at the breathless journalist than at Oscar winner Kidman...
...Abuse by Any Other Name It amazes me that American journalists are about as shocked over the continuing disclosures of torture as Claude Rains was over the gambling at Humphrey Bogart's joint in Casablanca back in the halcyon days of American idealism [June 21]. It's obvious that what went on in Abu Ghraib and Guant?namo was not the result of the actions of a few bad apples of inferior rank but a calculated policy formed in the upper reaches of the Bush Administration. How did we sink so low? Liberals and conservatives alike shudder as they contemplate this...
Many stars, Clark Gable and Stewart among them, returned from war to reclaim their eminence. Reagan was not of their wattage, and again he had loser's luck. Bogart got the haunted-hero roles at Warner; Reagan got the scraps, like the part of a suicidal epileptic in the 1947 Night unto Night. After a decade, Warner still hadn't decided what genre best suited Reagan. Melodrama? Let him play a small-town D.A. in the 1951 anti--Ku Klux Klan Storm Warning, with another lynch-mob scene and heavy emoting from all the principals but Reagan. Comedy...
...Navy. It is famous as the one film to co-star Reagan and his second bride Nancy Davis. In fact, Davis' role is small and she doesn't distinguish herself in it. But Reagan is impressive as a World War II naval hero with a hint of Bogart's neurotic Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny. In the attempt to discover Japanese sea lanes, submarine commander Casey Abbott makes a decision that kills 60 of his men. He is both firm in his belief that he did the greatest good for the greatest number and flooded with remorse for sending...