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Word: deviled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When good reviewers die a winged usherette leads them to The Great Projection Room in the sky where, for eternity, they watch pictures like Beat the Devil. For this is one of those scarce films that will hold to a regular re-run schedule, and be just as fresh and sparkling the sixth time around as it was the first...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beat The Devil | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

...they go to the picture expecting warmed-over Casablanca. There is only the connection of a common excellence. Most of the roaring successes--many of them also starring Humphrey Bogart, depended on tight-knit plots that, while fine alone, were garnished by unusual characters and brilliant lines. Beat the Devil rambles through the bare vestige of a plot delighting the audience with clever dialogue and swamping the screen with fantastic characters. Humphrey Bogart, for the most part, plays the same role he has perfected over the years. If he was called Rick, Sam or Harry before, and Billy...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beat The Devil | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

...same deftness of line and surprise of situation that both Huston and Bogart have become known for is in Beat the Devil. The secret, of course, lies in conceiving enough flamboyantly wicked characters to off-set Bogart's flashy heroism. In this case, Huston and Capote have hit a peak. From a tiny British Major who worships the memories of Mussolini and Hitler, to a German from Chile called O'Hara, the people of Beat the Devil are geniuses of evil and eccentricity...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beat The Devil | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel. A Boston travel agent, Harvardman Grimes, 32, married a German war widow who had come to the U.S. to study at Columbia University. His wife Irmgard had left her two young daughters by her first marriage in East Germany with her father, but she and Peter quickly agreed that the family should be brought together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Tale of Two Children | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart. Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida. Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME. March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

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