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...Shot (1942). Humphrey Bogart is a gangster on the lam in a flashback from his deathbed. Ch. 56, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
...Lonely Place. The attraction at this show is really Lady from Shanghai, one of Orson Welles's best movies. But it's well known, and this is our week of obscurity. The lonely place is Hollywood, and Bogart is a screenwriter who's hit the skids. Forced to write a screenplay of a trashy novel he hasn't read--sort of like the way our Stage encapsulist sometimes operates, we guess--Bogart snares a hat-check girl who explains the book to him and then gets strangled. For diehard fans of Bogart, or of Police Gazette...
Caine Mutiny with Bogart, 4:05, 8:05; On the Waterfront with Brando...
...down on Godard. He wasn't actually as important, self-appointed arbiters declare, as we thought he was during the '60s. A stylish innovator, perhaps, but without content. That's probably true for an early, exuberant fool-around film like Breathless, a quick-paced sort of Bogart parody. Pierrot Le Fou is more ambitious and more complex, however, and so the revisionists had better look twice before they go about their revising...
...shoot a great game of pool."...); a classic Godard. Everybody knows these films, you can hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney. A few oddities worth checking: Bogart (with a taste for cheesecake, the source of which Peter Lorre viciously murders) and Mafia friends save N.Y.C. from the Nazis when the police aren't watching in All Through the Night; the Russian film of Dostoevsky at Quincy; John Wayne in John Ford's Stagecoach, one of the first...