Favorite Bogie movie?

[sigp220.45]

TCM has a wealth of Bogart on demand right now.

I think my favorite Bogart performance is his star turn as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest, but that really is a Leslie Howard/Bette Davis movie.

So many great choices - The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But my favorite is the one that earned him his only Academy Award - The African Queen.

I remember watching it as a kid and being transfixed by it. The movie flies along - something is always happening. Germans, hippos, rapids, leeches....

Oh those leeches gave me nightmares. In my kid memory when Charlie Allnut got out of the swamp he was covered from head to toe in leeches. Of course by now it is only three or four.

So how about it? What is your favorite?

 

[rockquarry]

Probably "Treasure of Sierra Madre". Without Katherine Hepburn, "African Queen" would have been a contender. Still a good movie.

 

[UncleEd]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Not just him alone in that film,
everyone was wonderful. And
who doesn't love/laugh/hate
Alfonso Bedoya?

 

[CH4]

Probably "Treasure of Sierra Madre". Without Katherine Hepburn, "African Queen" would have been a contender. Still a good movie.

Great minds think alike!

Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
African Queen

 

[Rustyt1953]

1: Casablanca

2: Sabrina

3: Sahara

 

[Jack Flash]

I like The Big Sleep best I think.
Or maybe To Have and Have Not, yeah that's definitely the best.
But then there is always Key Largo. Aw shucks, …

 

[Fishslayer]

To Have & Have Not

 

[StrawHat]

I am very surprised no one has mentioned "The Oklahoma Kid" with Jimmy Cagney.

Kevin

 

[husker51]

This is tough. I really like this actor and can't just pick one for a favorite. If I was forced to choose one movie of his it would be based on more than just Bogie's performance. I would pick Casa Blanca. I am not saying it is his best. I am just saying that it has a lot going for it that I like. The cast, the writing. The plot and the wwII setting. One of my favorite movies of the time.

 

[Onomea]

Ahem: Just wanna insert that African Queen is about the best movie ever, and, in addition to swell job by Bogart, Katherine Hepburn was superb in that movie.

 

[UncleEd]

Onomea,

I'll join in defending Hepburn.

Bogart and her really worked well
together.

Kinda amazing how several of the
favorites of Bogie's were also
John Huston films as director/writer.

 

[tlawler]

African Queen for me. It was one of my Mom's favorite movies and I have great memories of watching it with her. Probably Casablanca second.

 

[ContinentalOp]

I'd have to say The Big Sleep.

Here's one of my favorite scenes (of all time, not just this movie)...

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXc4N_10rA[/ame]

 

[pawncop]

A tie between The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

 

[brucev]

Very most favorite Bogie movie? Key Largo.

Honorable mention -
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca

 

[swsig]

One of my all-time favorite movies, The Caine Mutiny.

 

[Farmer17]

I like love stories but Casa Blanca is over rated, I vote for African Queen and "We don't need no stinking badges"!

 

[31FordA]

There isn't a Bogart film I don't like. I even like "Sabrina", and it's really not my kind of film. Some of the films may not be the best scripts ever, but Bogart always did a great job with whatever he was given.

I guess if I have to pick a top favorite it would be "The Big Sleep", but it's tough to single out just one out of so many great movies.

"African Queen" was my Dad's favorite movie. I must've been about 6 years old the first time I watched it. It was on TV one night and Dad insisted we watch it. He made popcorn and let me stay up late to watch, even though it was a school night. I thought it was great, and those leaches really made an impression.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I like Casablanca.
Did I ever tell you about the time my FIL flew up there from Marrakesh ?
In a B-24 with a busted wing, piloted by an Arkansas Lawyer?

 

[10mmauto]

Key Largo, Casablanca, Maltese Falcon.

Can't have just one!