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This is the real stuff. Tracy is in the grand tradition of Grant and Bogart, and that makes Bad Day well worth seeing. Let Roberston smirk his way around the South Pacific; I'll take Bogie or Tracy facing down a gang of toughs any time...
...read; and then on the pages of fresh new paperbacks, assigned to most freshmen. They had shriveled to names, rarely identified, of the new eleven-story building on the Charles, of the hall in which one studied mathematics, of the theatre where one could see the latest festival of Bogart films. They had shriveled to rectangular pieces of cement, embossed upon red brick walls, to be ignored or glanced at by modern young men, 4,200 at a time, whose ancestors had been subsisting in the corners of Europe while the land for the College was cleared...
...historical approach to Bogart is possible this spring because the Brattle has programmed thirteen (count 'em) of the master's movies in one-day shots, guaranteed to ruin any carefully planned study schedule. The interested viewer can follow Bogie from his bit roles in George Raft type gangster films through the "classic" private eye series of the 'Forties to the start of his final ("warning" or "mature," depending on your preference) period...
Maltese Falcon (1941), the first private eye movie from Hollywood, established the "film noir" in America for the next ten years, and Bogart as the prototype Twentieth Century man. Two masterpieces, Casablanca (1943) and Big Sleep (1946), and a number of clever near-misses like To Have and Have Not (1945), Key Largo (1947), and Dark Passage (1947) brighten the canon of Bogie films in the 'Forties, which includes a good number of dull patriotic epics (Passage to Marseilles) and gangster potboilers. During the making of the cinema landmarks, a famous team of Bogart, Lauren Bacall ("If you want anything...
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) was the beginning of the serious acting career of Humphrey Bogart. Splendid performances in African Queen and Sabrina that followed showed that the type casting of some twenty years had kept back a real talent, but Bogie's popularity fell when he ceased to play the symbol. At the time of his death in 1955 he presided over his own rather sophisticated "rat pack" as a Hollywood elder statesman...