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Post by topbilled on May 9, 2024 14:04:13 GMT
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Post by kims on May 9, 2024 17:18:14 GMT
Vincent Sherman must have been a character. Over the years TCM has played "fillers" with Sherman and he says he made love to the actresses. I wonder if he was as lucky as he claimed. He is a good director, somehow I think I should make a joke about how he motivated actresses.
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Post by topbilled on May 16, 2024 14:19:46 GMT
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Post by topbilled on May 23, 2024 15:23:53 GMT
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Post by topbilled on May 30, 2024 15:13:55 GMT
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Post by BingFan on Jun 15, 2024 14:57:39 GMT
Sherman directed Bogart in two very entertaining movies in 1942.
The first was ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT. It’s comedy-adventure in which a bunch of Damon Runyon-esque characters, led by Bogart, put aside their gambling activities to go after Nazi saboteurs in New York City. The supporting cast is an unbelievably wonderful who’s who of character actors: Conrad Veidt, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Judith Anderson, Peter Lorre, William Demarest, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Wallace Ford, and Edward Brophy.
The other Bogart-Sherman pairing that year occurred when John Huston had to leave ACROSS THE PACIFIC to go into the Army, with Sherman taking over the last stages of filming. The movie is a very good shipboard adventure-comedy re-teaming Bogart with his MALTESE FALCON co-stars Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet. Bogart is a cashiered Army officer who gets mixed up with Japanese spies while sailing down the east coast on a freighter with fellow passengers Astor and Greenstreet. Huston probably deserves most of the credit, but I think Sherman did a good job of wrapping up the movie when Huston left Bogart’s character in a tough spot without telling anyone how he was supposed to get out of it.
While not up there with the greatest Bogart movies, these are second-tier classics that I never tire of seeing.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jun 15, 2024 15:30:09 GMT
Sherman directed Bogart in two very entertaining movies in 1942.
The first was ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT. It’s comedy-adventure in which a bunch of Damon Runyon-esque characters, led by Bogart, put aside their gambling activities to go after Nazi saboteurs in New York City. The supporting cast is an unbelievably wonderful who’s who of character actors: Conrad Veidt, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Judith Anderson, Peter Lorre, William Demarest, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Wallace Ford, and Edward Brophy.
The other Bogart-Sherman pairing that year occurred when John Huston had to leave ACROSS THE PACIFIC to go into the Army, with Sherman taking over the last stages of filming. The movie is a very good shipboard adventure-comedy re-teaming Bogart with his MALTESE FALCON co-stars Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet. Bogart is a cashiered Army officer who gets mixed up with Japanese spies while sailing down the east coast on a freighter with fellow passengers Astor and Greenstreet. Huston probably deserves most of the credit, but I think Sherman did a good job of wrapping up the movie when Huston left Bogart’s character in a tough spot without telling anyone how he was supposed to get out of it.
While not up there with the greatest Bogart movies, these are second-tier classics that I never tire of seeing. Yea, two good and entertaining films. Made between The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, it shows that Warner Bros. finally realized what they had in Bogie. (expect that they also made The Big Shot in 42 which is a routine, still-a-gangster picture). |
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