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 1954 An excellent year - like a fine wine - with 4 top notch films top his credit.
Humphrey Bogart was a last minute replacement for Cary Grant. Bogart and William Holden couldn't stand each other. Bogart disapproved of Audrey Hepburn, (he wanted his wife Lauren Bacall in the role), while Holden fell in love with Hepburn and hated Bogart for disliking working with Hepburn. Bogart got $300000, Holden got $150000, and Hepburn only $15000. Asked how he liked working with Hepburn, Bogart replied: "It's ok, if you don't mind to make 20 takes.'' Comments from William Paolucci's "All Things Bogart"
 Complex, atypical Bogie performance is keynote for strong drama from Pulitzer-winning novel and Broadway show. Francis, Johnson, and MacMurray are shipmates early in WWII aboard a destroyer-cum-minesweeper. Bogart, in one of his greatest performances, boards the ship as her new captain and immediately establishes both his power over the men and his neurosis. When he clashes with Johnson, the latter is court-martialed, and Ferrer must defend him. The scenes with Bogart disintegrating on the witness stand have become part of American film folklore, as he delineates the layers of perfectionism and obsessiveness overlaying an inferiority complex. This is a don't-miss picture, unnecessarily beefed up with a gratuitous, concocted love story between Wynn (using her own name in the film) and Francis. Bogart was later asked how he managed to totally capture the paranoid personality of Queeg. "Simple," growled Bogie, "everybody knows I'm nuts, anyway. reference: www.tvgen.com Available in VHS video 125 min. The Caine Mutiny (Letterboxed Version) VHS Also available in a theatrical, widescreen format.
 Offbeat is the only way to describe this John Huston/Truman Capote collaboration about a ragtag group of con men out to swindle each other while on a Mediterranean cruise. Wild action spoof stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Gina Lollobrigida. Available in VHS video 89 min.
 A very complex story finds Gardner dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Stevens has hired Bogart, a faded director, to write and direct a movie about a glamorous woman. Gardner likes Bogart and hates Stevens but agrees to make the movie. She is an instant star. Stevens, in a thinly disguised portrayal of Howard Hughes, throws a party for fellow millionaire Marius Goring. Bogart and Elizabeth Sellars, his girl friend/script girl, arrive. Goring has eyes for Gardner and invites her to join him on his yacht. Stevens forbids it, but she defies him. O'Brien, the toadying press agent, goes to work for Goring. There is no way that Goring is going to get Gardner, but since people assume that he is sleeping with her, that's enough to soothe Goring's insecurities. At a local casino, Gardner takes some of Goring's cash and tosses it out the window to her latest lover. Goring begins to lose and accuses Gardner of bringing him ill fortune. Goring berates Gardner in public until he is stopped by Brazzi, a count, who whacks Goring and takes Gardner out of the casino. They fall in love, and Bogart gives the bride away at the wedding. Some time later, Gardner tells Bogart that her beloved husband is impotent, the result of a wound sustained during the war. Gardner loves her husband so much that she wants to make him a father. Bogart suggests that that might be a bad idea. Brazzi is a very proud man and might not enjoy the thought of his wife getting pregnant by someone else. After Gardner leaves Bogart's hotel room, Bogart looks out the window to see Brazzi's car following Gardner's auto. Bogart gets into his car and races to the fabulous house they occupy, but he is too late. Two shots are heard from the servant's quarters. Brazzi walks out carrying his dead wife. They call the police and the film ends where it began, at the cemetery. reference: www.tvgen.com Available in VHS video 128 min. Want you own copy of these films? Click on the links above and below for information and secure online ordering. Most films are on VHS, some on DVD, and different Bogie posters are also available.
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