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With: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Edward Underdown, Ivor Barnard, Marco Tulli, Bernard Lee
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Written by: Truman Capote, John Huston, based on a novel by James Helvick
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Directed by: John Huston
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
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Running Time: 100
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Date: 24/11/1953
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Desperate Characters
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy Beat the Devil on DVD. Truman Capote wrote the screenplay for this 1954 John Huston film, perhaps the oddest film Humphrey Bogart ever made. On their way to Africa, Bogey and Gina Lollobrigida get stranded in Italy while waiting for steamboat repairs. A band of rogues are also on hand, and these weird, seedy characters sit around in off-kilter close-ups and exchange wry dialogue. Eventually it's revealed that they all have secret plans involving Uranium deposits. It's nearly incomprehensible at times, and yet it has a captivating vibe that makes it compulsively watchable. It was a flop but has subsequently become a cult classic. DVD Details: Beat the Devil has fallen into the public domain, and so it's available on several cheap DVDs.
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