Favorite Bogart movie?

Maltese Falcon, because I like to compare the Bogart version to the original 1931 version with Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade.

To Have And Have Not, because I like how Hoagy Carmichael plays a few bars on a piano from his song Baltimore Oriole, which is about a Baltimore streetwalker.
 
I like a bunch of 'em but The African Queen is surely near the top of the list.

I like the scene where he gets back in the swamp with the leeches to drag the boat forward. It reminds me of every working guy who, stuck in an unpleasant job, gets out of bed every day anyway and, once again, does what he has to do to take care of his family... Because that it is what a man -- backed by the strength of a good woman -- does, however impossibly hard it seems at the time.

(Hey, I am a romantic, okay?! :))
 
Sahara was probably the most pro war film of its time....I can't even imagine anybody but Bogy playing the part. Casablanca was the film that will be the most remembered. Again the studio contract players come trough with great performences...What a cast...People forget that Ingred Bergmen was almost banned in the US because of her umarried status with a kid...How things have changed....Bogy basically plays Bogy in most of his films,,The exception I think would be his part as Capt. Queeg......Great actor and cerainally not a pretty boy...Him and George Raft both had a street tough look. and Cagney.....But he could dance.....
 
I like most of Bogart's movies; but the I enjoy his oddballs the most:

His Satire of B Westerns in Oklahoma Kid with Cagney
His spoof of Karloff in The Return of Doctor X
The Roaring Twenties again with Cagney &
The Enforcer
 
policerevolvercollector said:
All Through the Night (1942).
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That's the first one I thought of. It's an amusing little movie.

I also like "Tokyo Joe", "Action in the North Atlantic" and "Passage to Marseilles".

"Action in the North Atlantic" has an action scene with an Heinkel He 59 float plane, probably the ONLY time that plane's ever been in a dramatic film.
 
I forgot probably my favorite, "The Big Sleep".

It got about as close to the edge of the production code as possible.

TCM shows it from time to time, and when they do, they sometimes show a mini documentary they did about it. Apparently the original script was a mess and sections of the film had to be re-shot. The documentary shows both versions of some of the scenes to illustrate the contrast. They're VERY different movies.
 
Speaking of All Through the Night, there is more than one hilarious scene in it but-the one that stands out to me is when Bogie does a little "Three Stooges" thing by pointing at someone and quickly raising his finger to the guys nose. I cant find a picture of it to post here.
 
policerevolvercollector said:
Great movie. But,one question....

Who actually murdered the chaffeur? ;)

Trick question. The answer was left out of the movie & the book. Raymond Chandler later said that he forgot to attribute that homicide to anyone!
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Well, we know that Joe Brody "... sapped him down". But did Joe kill him?

Personally, I always thought it was Kinnino. After all, he was the kind of guy who would "knock your teeth out, then kick you in the stomach for mumbling." :eek:
 
the ringo kid said:
Sorry for the loss. I actually met James Cagney in L.A. circa 1981? 82?

If you all can ever get to trying him on the screen again? Get any of those Warner Brothers Gangster Classic sets. They have at least 4 sets of 4-5 movies in each. I was a big fan of Cagneys when I first saw him in: The Fighting 69th, and became a much bigger fan after seeing many of his earlies.
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One of my favorite movies, "Mr. Roberts", has Cagney as the ship's captain (and antagonist) of Henry Fonda.

Back to Bogart: as I mentioned, I've only seen two of his movies. There was one that came on Turner Classic Movies a while back that I started watching, but then got called away. He played a private detective, and was called to a house (a mansion) and was talking to a man in a wheel chair, in a hot house or green house, where it was really humid and warm. (That's as far as I got into it.)

Ring any bells with anyone?
 
GKC said:
One of my favorite movies, "Mr. Roberts", has Cagney as the ship's captain (and antagonist) of Henry Fonda.

Back to Bogart: as I mentioned, I've only seen two of his movies. There was one that came on Turner Classic Movies a while back that I started watching, but then got called away. He played a private detective, and was called to a house (a mansion) and was talking to a man in a wheel chair, in a hot house or green house, where it was really humid and warm. (That's as far as I got into it.)

Ring any bells with anyone?
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Doesnt sound like one ive seen but the Wheelchair thing sounds familiar? Do you remember who else was in it? possibly Sidney Greenstreet??
 
Without a doubt, 1943's "Sahara". The reason being is that my father-in-law, as a member of the 4th Armored Division, was an extra in the movie. This was just prior to the Dvision shipping out to Europe and making their now infamous march across Europe and through Bastogne. "Sammy" met Bogart in person and brought his autograph home with him in 1945.
 
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