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| susquesus |
Posted - July 22 2004 : 9:30:01 PM
Of the listed Bogart films, which is your favorite? Why? Also, what is your favorite Bogart film that is not listed? |
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| caitlin |
Posted - August 01 2004 : 7:36:35 PM
Ahh, one of my favorites as well..
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow..." 
FYI Trivia about To Have and Have Not:
Bogart, Humphrey and Bacall, Lauren fell in love during production. Director Hawks, Howard afterward said that it was actually Bacall's character Marie that Bogart had fallen for, "so she had to keep playing it the rest of her life."
Hemingway, Ernest had bet Hawks that Hawks couldn't film this novel. Hawks did it by deleting most of the story, including the class references that would justify the title, and shifting to an earlier point in the lives of the lead characters.
The setting was shifted to Martinique because the Office of Inter-American Affairs would not have allowed export of a film showing smuggling and insurrection in Cuba.
Andy Williams was hired to dub Bacall singing "How Little We Know", but Hawks decided to go with Bacall.
The only film to date (2000) based on a novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author (Hemingway, Ernest) to have its screenplay co-written by another Nobel Prize-winning author (Faulkner, William).
The screenplay was rewritten to boost Slim's role to take advantage of the public interest in the real life romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. |
| Kurt |
Posted - July 31 2004 : 06:24:22 AM
"To Have and Have Not" was Lauren Bacall's screen debut and you can see Bogey falling for her. And how often is Bogey 1) the good guy 2) gets the girl 3) still alive at the end of the film? |
| susquesus |
Posted - July 30 2004 : 10:47:20 PM
I went with "Casablanca" too. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was a close second, though. I was happy that the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Carrotblanca", was included on the recent DVD version of the film. I am a huge Peter Lorre fan as well. He's at his peak in "Casablanca", though I think he's also great in the later "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". |
| Bookworm |
Posted - July 30 2004 : 7:19:14 PM
Casablanca is a great movie AND a great Bogart movie. Rick is the classic Bogart role -- wary, skeptical, weary of the world's stupidity, but finally evil rears its head again and he has to do the right thing. The Maltese Falcon is a close second. Of those not listed, I'd choose The Big Sleep, for Lauren Bacall and that incredibly complex plot. I've seen it several times and still couldn't tell you what happened! |
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