I didn't want to hijack the "Casablanca" thread.

I love his classics (Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre etc.,) My favorite is a lesser known one :

All Through the Night (1942). Bogart & his gangster pals fight Nazis in NYC after he is falsely accused of murder. Peter Lorre and some other alumni from his earlier pictures co-starred.

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What is yours?

Too many favorites and not necessarily in this order but:

W a young Jackie Gleason playing with toy soldiers:







Badges? I dont got no badge, we dont need no stinking badges!


Captain Queeg playing with his balls:












To name just a few.

A few decades back I was a fan of Bogart, but recently not so much.

The movie of his that I enjoyed the most was The Maltese Falcon.

Certainly the Big Sleep and Casablanca were good movies also.

Bogies is the best version of The Maltese Falcon. I picked up a set that had I think two other versions and his out did any out there. BTW, that Falcon is up for Auction thanks to TCM.

I just hope nobody bashes Cagney--he's tops in my book.

He could not only act but have you ever watched him dance? A very talented individual.

"Key Largo" is one of my favorites...


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My favorites are the standards, Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. I like To Have and Have Not, but more for Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall. The Big Sleep is good, but not as good as the original Raymond Chandler. I was lukewarm about Petrified Forest, which features a kind of odd stunted performance by Bogart. And I can't stand The African Queen, because I can't stand Katharine Hepburn. (Now Audrey, that's another matter.)

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You got that right and I have. He's excellent on the ball room floor. Yankee Doodle Dandy shows how diverse he was.

Uh oh--Back to Bogart.

I'm going to hijack this thread and mention Katharine Hepburn, in my opinion one of the great actresses of our time. She played opposite greats like Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy (whom she dated off screen), Bogart, John Wayne and Sir Laurence Olivier. What a great walk down memory lane.

I've only seen two movies with Humphrey Bogart in them: The Caine Mutiny and The African Queen, but I liked them both.

As for James Cagney, he is indeed a great actor and dancer...we can't watch him though, because he is the spitting image of my wife's father (or vice versa) who died when she was 14. It makes her too sad. It's uncanny how much they look alike, but sound nothing alike.

Just for you: Key Largo which is one of my favorite tunes from the early 80s.
Bertie Higgins - Key Largo - YouTube

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.

Whatever the movie how about the man, a chessmaster, a more than capable skipper on the high seas and marries a 19 year old beauty named Lauren Bacall at near the age of 50 and she still calls him the love of her life.

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I just watched "To have and have not" the other day. Pretty good flick.

As a PI, I love "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep".

But the best, by far, is "Casablanca". If you look at the list of the greatest movies ever made it is usually in the top three.

Should be #1. It's my favorite movie of all time.
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I really like To Have and To Have Not. It would be my favorite, but for The Big Sleep. Bogart and Bacall at their best.

I have to say that The Treasure of the Sierra Madres has the most realistic barroom fight in it, when Bogey and Tim Holt attempt to collect their wages. The only other barroom fight that holds a candle to it is in Lonely Are the Brave.

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Bogey didn't make too many clunkers, but Casablanca and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre are the most outstanding in my opinion. I've watched both of them over a dozen times each. I just don't get tired of them. Seems I remember Nixon's favorite movie was TTSM.

It's often said that Bogey and Clark Gable were admired not only by women, but also most men. I can't think of any actors of today that I admire. Or even like.

That's like asking do I like Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads? The answer is yes. Which do I like? All of them. Same with Bogey movies.

Treasure of Serra Madre and Tokyo Joe

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!

High sierra. But that may partially be because I knew the areas of most the scenes.

That's OK, it was a great movie anyway.

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

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 recently saw the Ricardo Cortez version.

I wonder what a pre-code version with Bogart would have been like.

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.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, African Queen

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Casablanca and the Maltese falcon.

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."

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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?

The African Queen and Treasure of the Sierra Madre of course!

Doesnt sound like one ive seen but the Wheelchair thing sounds familiar? Do you remember who else was in it? possibly Sidney Greenstreet??

I agree and would like to add Sahara which was Bogie's favorite of all the movies that he made.

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.

You're describing the opening scene of The Big Sleep. Don't forget the young lady who tried to sit in his lap, while he was standing.

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Sounds like the Big Sleep.

I know ole Humphrey and Cagney made lots of money for the times they lived in.

Cagney was salaried for $5,000 per week back when the Great Depression (the first one) was going on.

Humphrey was salaried at $450,000 per year in the 1940's.

Plus, when she was younger, Humphrey had his hands full with Lauren Bacall cuz she was quite a dish.

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The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Casablanca, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Sahara, The Caine Mutiny, Oh heck.......... ALL OF THEM! There's only TWO I don't really care for and I think Bogie was miscast. Sabrina and I can't think of the other title, but it was NOT his kind of role. He is my favorite Actor of all time!

My favorite Bogart movie is whichever one that is on now.

It would be a "tie" between...

"The African Queen" & "Casablanca".

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I pretty much liked everything he did but "To have and have not" is a favorite. That movie is the reason my daughter is named Lauren.

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