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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, a few people may be disappointed if 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...

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

...Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey and R.C.A. Board Chairman David Sarnoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...doubtless presumptuous of the undergraduate to inquire concerning matters which touch him no more closely than his education, experience, enjoyment and career, but at least one undergraduate feels that the present situation remains slightly inadequately explained. sincerely, Humphrey Fisher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

...American ne'er-do-well (Humphrey Bogart) is bound for British East Africa with his Italian wife (Gina Lollobrigida) and four "business associates" (Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Marco Tulli, Ivor Bernard). "They're desperate characters," concludes one feminine fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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