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...historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies for the Isaacsons, only Paul Robeson at Peekskill or Barbirolli's Philharmonic at the Lewiston Stadium...
...Sleep. Though Howard Hawks and his scriptures muddled Raymond Chandler's impeccable crafted lines of action, this film is as much fun as anything Bogart starred in. He's a more glib and humorous hard-boiled dick than Chandler's Philip Marfowe, but the entire film is played for laughs--and played to the hilt by Lauren Bacall and Elisha Cook, among others...
THURSDAY: Robert Without a Cause, James Dean created an unforgettable image for a whole generation in this 1955 teenage melodrama. Cast includes Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper, CH, 56, 8 p.m. Color, 2 hrs, The African Queen, Bogart and Hepburn in the 1951 lady and the tramp classic. Directed by John Huston and scripted by James Agee. A joy to watch. CH. 7, 9 p.m. Color...
...Kramer, and it ends up as an Eisenhower-culture fantasy; the Jewish lawyer gets to ask, in the final moments. Where all of Captain Queeg's mutinous underlings were when Queeg was fighting--right from WWII's beginning--to prevent his grandmother from being turned into a soap-bar. Bogart is Queeg, the psychotic captain of the U.S.S. Caine, and he's fine: it's fun to watch Fred MacMurray and Van Johnson flounder in his midst...
Above all, at 33, Liv is a far more seasoned and accomplished performer than most of the new faces that turn up in Hollywood. Humphrey Bogart was once asked who his favorite actor was. He named Spencer Tracy and gave as his reason: "Because you can't see the machinery working." With Liv, the machinery never shows either. Her previous work has already established that she not only has the unobtrusive yet authoritative presence called star quality but is also perhaps the most impeccably naturalistic actress in films today...