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100 Greatest Golden Age Hollywood Films (100 movies items)"One of the strangest films of Hollywood's Golden Age, John Huston's 'Beat the Devil' is a fascinating beast. Ostensibly a parody of noirish adventure films (two genres Huston had worked in with great success), 'Beat the Devil' follows the witty, barbed interactions of a group of criminals, psychopaths and rogues and their illegal attempts to acquire uranium-rich land in Kenya. Although the film eventually places the motley crew aboard a tramp steamer to Mombasa, on which some degree of tension i"
“From the first frame on this thing just screams “cult classic” with its pervasive close-ups of character actors, a compulsively watchable hang-out vibe, and a sense that all of the action is taking place with gigantic quotes around it. Beat the Devil, easily the oddest film in Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones’ bodies of work, is a charming satire of the kind of films John Huston made with a straight face both before and after its release. Beat the Devil has a charm that plays out like watching a group of improv actors spinning out an adventure story on the spot, complete with free-associative musings and character motivations. We open at the end of the film where a group of men are being carried away by the police, and we trace back as much as possible to explain how we ended ” read more
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My Movie Diary 2017 (217 movies items)"25 May. Directed by John Huston with screenplay by Truman Capote, Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley as a gang of misfits somewhere in Africa plotting to get rich by looking for uranium. The movie offers talent but the story seems to go nowhere, or that it takes too long for the trip. Definitely not Bogart's best since he has to share the screen with many others more interestingly written characters than his. "
