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Unfortunately, a few people may be disappointed if they go to the picture expecting warmed-over Casablanca. There is only the connection of a common excellence. Most of the roaring successes--many of them also starring Humphrey Bogart, depended on tight-knit plots that, while fine alone, were garnished by unusual characters and brilliant lines. Beat the Devil rambles through the bare vestige of a plot delighting the audience with clever dialogue and swamping the screen with fantastic characters. Humphrey Bogart, for the most part, plays the same role he has perfected over the years. If he was called Rick...
...same deftness of line and surprise of situation that both Huston and Bogart have become known for is in Beat the Devil. The secret, of course, lies in conceiving enough flamboyantly wicked characters to off-set Bogart's flashy heroism. In this case, Huston and Capote have hit a peak. From a tiny British Major who worships the memories of Mussolini and Hitler, to a German from Chile called O'Hara, the people of Beat the Devil are geniuses of evil and eccentricity...
...dialogue, stressing unexpected humor, the incongruous wise-crack, is almost as heroic in spots as the palmists bits of derring-do in earlier Bogart pieces. Jennifer Jones, with blonde hair and a sometimes British accent, accounts for much of the dialogue in situations. As a woman who, while not exactly a liar, "relies more on her imagination than on her memory," she keeps the verbal stew bubbling with a series of fantastic stories. But the authors are kind to all the actors, and everyone has his share of marvelous lines...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart. Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida. Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME. March...
...principals, Jennifer Jones, her hair blonded for the occasion, does the best with the best part&−she manages to catch the mystic fervor of the truly creative liar. Bogart and Lollobrigida are a little too surface-smooth with their lines, suggesting sometimes that underneath the words they do not really know what they...