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Warren Oates is a fine Dillinger as far as the script will allow, which isn't very far. He even looks a little like Bogart in several scenes, especially in a jail sequence where you expect. Ann Sheridan to visit him any second with a nailfile baked in a pie. The rest of the cast is excellent, and everyone has a terrific American southwest accent. The only disappointment is Michelle Phillips as Billie Frechette, who manages to look like both Faye Dunaway and Ali McGraw, the new gun molls of the '70s (Eecch!). Her acting regrettably takes faithfully after...
...Petrified Forest. Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart stuck in a cafe in the desert of Arizona, trying to steal scenes. A gripping, almost exhausting drama, with fine performances by all three. Channel...
...schedule because the Welles holds week long festivals at least one of which will be worth planning ahead for. Cambridge's other three theaters--the Brattle, the Harvard Square, and the Central are all under the same ownership. The Brattle specializes in classic, popular and auteur revivals--Cagney and Bogart will be big there this summer. Harvard Square usually features first run films about six months after their original distribution--so if you can't afford Tango now, or if you refuse on principle to pay the $4.50 asking price, wait a while; it won't be too long...
Tatum learned to smoke for the role, but vows "I'm not going to smoke in real life-Humphrey Bogart died from it." Harder than smoking was a scene where she had to go up to a candy counter and say, "Can I have some Juicy Fruit gum, please?" She had flu, was "full of penicillin, and my mind was spinning." Bogdanovich decided he wanted her to ask for Dentyne. "I told him, 'You can't do that. I'm sick. I've learned my lines and I can't do it over...
...Sleep. Director Howard Hawks and his writers (including William Faulkner) claimed they couldn't follow the plot of Raymond Chandler's detective novel. In any case, they turned Detective Phillip Marlowe into Humphrey Bogart yet still managed to retain large chunks of snappy Chandler dialogue. Watch this movie for mood and style, not plot, and you'll find it one of Bogart and Bacall's very best...