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Humphrey Bogart Collection (1948)
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Mary Astor,
Lauren Bacall,
Ingrid Bergman,
Humphrey Bogart,
Paul Henreid,
Lionel Barrymore,
Gladys George,
Thomas Gomez,
Sydney Greenstreet,
Peter Lorre,
Barton MacLane,
Dorothy Malone,
Lee Patrick
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Michael Curtiz,
John Huston
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Suspense / Thriller,
Drama
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Warner Bros.
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English, French
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Length: |
534 mins
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The Big Sleep L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case…and follows a trail people with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more.But Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style -- and style is what The Big Sleep is all about.Director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of Bogart and Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore.This DVD doubles your pleasure, offering two versions of this whodunit supreme: the familiar 1946 theatrical version (Side A) full of reshot scenes of incendiary Bogart/Bacall chemistry, and the less-familiar 1945 prerelease version (Side B), which recently resurfaced and whose plot and resolution are more linear in fashion.
Casablanca Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henried), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one... especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important -- his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance.Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, Casablanca is "America's most popular and beloved movie -- and rightly so" (The Motion Picture Guide)!
Key Largo A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Jonny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up -- and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nore Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart).McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award-winning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted, boozy moll. In Huston's hands, it becomes a powerful, sweltering classic.
The Maltese Falcon A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why -- and who'll take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's directorial debut, rotund Sydney Greenstreet's screen debut, film history's first film noir and Bogart's break through role after years as a Warner contract player.An all-star cast (including Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Pete Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) join Bogart in this crisply written sizzler that placed in the top quarter of the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Films list. Many say it's the best detective drama ever. Each time you see it, you'll find it hard to disagree.
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