Archive for the 'Bogart' Category
Sabrina - 1954
Set Your Recorders, Comedy, Romance, Bogart, New York| 1 Comment »Both Humphrey Bogart and William Holden are too old for their roles. Mr. Bogart hated working with director Billy Wilder. No matter what, Humphrey Bogart quit work at 6:00 PM on the dot, because that was the time he started drinking his Scotch and sodas. If anyone tried to get him to work after […]
Key Largo - 1948
Set Your Recorders, Film Noir, Drama, Bogart| No Comments »This was the fourth and final film pairing Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and it is great. Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) travels to a run-down hotel on Key Largo to visit the family of a friend who died bravely in his unit during WW II. His friend’s widow, Nora (Lauren Bacall) and wheelchair bound father, […]
Caine Mutiny - 1954
Set Your Recorders, Drama, Bogart| No Comments »In Caine Mutiny Mr. Bogart plays the quintessential Navy Captain who is losing his marbles. In one of the most tragic and sympathetic performances of a man breaking down sanity-wise on a witness stand, Mr. Bogart moved the studio crew to a thunderous round of applause when the scene was finished. The film […]
Desperate Hours - 1955
Set Your Recorders, Film Noir, Thriller/Suspense, Bogart| No Comments »The picture stars Fredric March (in a role originally intended for Spencer Tracy) as a not such a pushover middleaged uppermiddle class business man who’s home is invaded and family held hostage by a gang of escaped convicts. Humprey Bogart in a role originated by Paul Newman on Broadway shines in his last tough guy […]
