Word: bogarting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heaven's name on the lone occasion in four years when I would have wanted to be at courtside was I off watching Humphrey Bogart films...
...this script, could make neither heads nor tails of the plot-line and got in touch with novelist Raymond Chandler for some clues. "Beats me if I can figure the story out," Chandler said. Maybe your luck will be better. Or maybe you won't much care, since Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, as the undauntable Philip Marlowe and the seductive older sister, make for such an entertaining romantic tandem as to make the detective element peripheral. Maybe Chandler should take the credit--but, like Altman's "The Long Goodbye," this film manages to be technically flawed and almost incoherent...
...Kane" and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimentalist" soft spots of Rick in "Casablanca" or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in "Petrified Forest." Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included...
...wrong to say that the scripts are no longer being written for women," says Actress Catherine Deneuve, who is all fired up about her new role in the French thriller Listen Here. She plays a Bogart-like private eye who has gun, will travel. Her employer: a mysterious baron who has developed radio waves that can paralyze a whole town. Deneuve learned from the French flics how to shoot a revolver. She took to it quickly. Says she: "It's as exciting as a road show...
...River, The Big Sleep and Scarface; of complications from a concussion caused by a fall; in Palm Springs, Calif. "For me, the best drama is the one that deals with a man in danger," said Hawks, and the endangered men of his movies included such giants as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, James Cagney and Gary Cooper, matched with sexy, strong-willed Hawksian discoveries such as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard and Jane Russell. When French cineasts made a cult of the tall, quiet director, claiming for example that he "incarnates the classic American cinema," Hawks commented: "I get open...