Beat the Devil (The Film Detective Restored Version)
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: The Film Detective
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre & Jennifer Jones | |
Performer: | Robert Morley, Edward Underdown, Ivor Barnard, Bernard Lee, Marco Tulli & Tony Curtis | |
Directed by | John Huston | |
Edited by | Ralph Kemplen | |
Screenplay by | John Huston & Truman Capote | |
Composition by | Franco Mannino | |
Cinematography by | Oswald Morris | |
Art Direction by | Wilfred Shingleton | |
Produced by | John Huston |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C+ --
It looks like it's going to be a riot, but turns out almost laugh free.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It operates under the assumption that everyone in it is drunk, lusty, a little crooked, and a little crazy, and once you tune in to their wavelength, it's fun to just hang out with them for an hour and a half.
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Flavorwire
Their production is sheer picaresque adventure, which darts from point to point as their fancy takes it -- and sparkles with mordant humor.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Rating: 2.5/5 --
You have to wonder what Capote and John Huston were thinking in trying to make a satire that didn't have any actual jokes.
Filmcritic.com
he film ranges from the diffident to the grotesque, with Huston selecting his lenses to make the performers look as freakish as possible.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/4 --
If Beat the Devil puzzled audiences on its first release, it has charmed them since.
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Chicago Sun-Times
An informal comedy that is at times critical, entertaining, and even discursive. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Description by OLDIES.com:
Writer/Director John Huston's Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the front man for a group of swindlers stranded in an Italian port town, scheming to take ownership of uranium-rich land in Africa. Also stranded is a naive British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chelm (Edward Underdown and Jennifer Jones). Flirtations and a web of lies ensue among the group, testing romantic loyalty and allegiances among them. The last of six collaborations between Huston and Bogart, Beat the Devil evokes an effortless wit and charm found only in classic film gems like this.
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- Sales Rank: 59,991
- UPC: 887936993916
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