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Though Humphrey Bogart's picture is not as good as "The Maltese Falcon," which it would be very hard to equal, it's definitely a first-class fifth-column picture, and well worth a trip into Boston. Mr. Bogart has at last found his place in movies. The part of a hard-boiled Broadway guy fits him perfectly, and Warner Brothers, who are not usually slow to recognize a good thing when they have it, would do well to keep him in parts like this, instead of making him a bloodthirsty gangster whom everybody is supposed to hate...
...confusing, but "Maltese Falcon" is one of the most exciting pictures that's come out of Hollywood in years. Add Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, add a superb job on photography, whether it's heightening the tension of a midnight phone-call, or vivifying the nickname of "The Fat Man," and you have a nearly perfect thriller. It is marred only by the ending. We may be grateful for the absence of sentimentality, but even a detective's romance should not meet so brusque a fate...
This dramatic suspense is heightened by some practically perfect performances by a slick cast. As sly Sam Spade, a hot-&-cold private detective who doesn't bat an eye while committing the heroine (Mary Astor) he loves to the pen, Bad Man Humphrey Bogart gives the performance of his career. Close behind him is an aging (61), solid (280 lb.), crackerjack Broadway actor (Sydney Greenstreet) making his first movie a shivery success. Making a trio with this pair is slight, saccharine, sinister Peter Lorre, whose mere presence would turn a bedtime story macabre...
Pretty brainy, Radcliffe, Freshmen were asked their frank opinions on local topics in a regular Wednesday feature broadcast. Priscilla Nason removed the reputed stuffling from Harvard men's shirtfronts by declaring "they're just as manageable as fellows from any other college." Francine Bogart, who is French, liked Boston for its "European atmosphere...
...High Sierra" is an attempt to make the most of Humphrey Bogart's gangsterish histrionics by creating a continuous atmosphere of suspense. But Something has slipped and the whole sequence of events is pretty obvious. Both Bogart and Ida Lupino do excellent performances...