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Since Brattle shows the same Bogart films over the over--all of them showing more or less the same sort of character--a lot of people at Harvard seem to think he couldn't really act. All he could do, so this position goes, was to be Bogart. The African Queen, showing at the Welles, certainly debunks the theory. His performance in John Huston's film of James Agee's screenplay of C.S. Forrester's novel almost rivals Katherine Hepburn's I overheard an unscrupulous wretch in the dining hall trying to start a rumor that the novel was actually...
ROBERT ALTMAN turns detective movies upside down with The Long Goodbye. It's the latest in a series of films depicting the exploits of Raymond Chandler's fictional gumshoe, Philip Marlowe. Actors from Bogart to James Garner have played him, with Bogart creating the classic rendition. But audiences expecting something in the tradition of The Big Sleep are bound to be disappointed. Altman, the most original and risk-taking of current American directors, creates his own tradition...
...favorite character in The Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...
SUNDAY: Casablanca. 1942. My favorite Bogey and one of my all-time favorite films. Romance and intrigue in wartime Morocco with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Heinreid, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, et al. CH.56...
High Sierra. 1940. Walsh's memorable tale of an ex-con (Humphrey Bogart) and his faithful girl (Ida Lupino). CH.56...