Casablanca is #1...what is #2 Bogart movie?

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Casablanca... I love this film.

I saw another Bogart film recently about a hurricane while Bogie was holed up in a hotel in the Keys down in Florida. Forget the name but loved the movie.

Believe it or not, these are the only two Humphrey Bogart movies I have ever seen but I am now addicted to them.

What is the #2 movie (next to Casablanca) that is a must-see?:angel:
 
He won his only Academy Award for The African Queen, so that's probably one to see, even if not #2 on everyone's list. I personally like The Maltese Falcon alot.
 
That was Key Largo, Dave. Great film. He was very good in that. The Maltese Falcon was also good. I haven't seen African Queen since I was a teenager and I probably did not properly appreciate it. It was a better film for Katherine Hepburn's performance I suspect.
 
The Big Sleep without question was Bogart's defining moment. I have seen it a dozen times and gratefully once on the big screen in NY.
 
The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are classics that have to be seen. (Though, for the latter, the best Marlowe would had been Mitchum in his prime.) However In a Lonely Place, and, The Treasure of Sierra Madre are more complex, darker tales. Bogart usually exceled in roles with a dark underside. In these two films he gives two of his finest performances.

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Big Sleep and Maltese Falcon are both among the greatest films ever, but my all time favorite Bogart film and Bogart performance is The Treasure of Sierra Madre...almost perfect in my book
 
So in Casablanca, Key Largo, and the Maltese Falcon, he plays a fairly similar character. His African Queen character is very different. So that's one to see. But I couldn't, in good conscience, not recommend To Have & Have Not, which definitely was made to milk the Casablanca cow more but is 1) very good nonetheless 2) introduces Lauren Bacall and 3) has a very fun performance by Hoagy Carmichael (who wrote Georgia on my mind, stardust, heart and soul, lazy river and scads of other standards). You should see it.
 
fwiw, he's awesome right about to the very end. sabrina and the caine mutiny are superb movies, and superb performances.
 
his first big movie that thrust him into the limelight was The Petrified Forest. english actor Leslie Howard, a big intl star at the time, insisted Bogie reprise his stage role in the film or Howard wouldnt do the movie. thus, Bogie, forever grateful, named his first child Leslie. another one of my favorites was Dead End, also a famous play, that introduced the Dead End Kids to the screen; they were much later to evolve into the Bowery Boys of 1950s B movie fame.

i do think his best 'acting' came in Sierra Madre and also the Caine Mutiny, both of which he was 'out of character'. as others have said Maltese Falcon really defined his screen persona for many of his subsequent films.

you'll find a lot of others on your own like To Have and Have Not (also with Bacall), Sahara, High Sierra, Dead Reckoning, gosh dave, youve got a lotta great screen time ahead of you!
tony
 
rbelyell said:
his first big movie that thrust him into the limelight was The Petrified Forest. english actor Leslie Howard, a big intl star at the time, insisted Bogie reprise his stage role in the film or Howard wouldnt do the movie. thus, Bogie, forever grateful, named his first child Leslie. another one of my favorites was Dead End, also a famous play, that introduced the Dead End Kids to the screen; they were much later to evolve into the Bowery Boys of 1950s B movie fame.

i do think his best 'acting' came in Sierra Madre and also the Caine Mutiny, both of which he was 'out of character'. as others have said Maltese Falcon really defined his screen persona for many of his subsequent films.

you'll find a lot of others on your own like To Have and Have Not (also with Bacall), Sahara, High Sierra, Dead Reckoning, gosh dave, youve got a lotta great screen time ahead of you!
tony
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Yeah, ain't it cool? They sure don't make movies like these anymore and it took me this long to really appreciate some of the finer things in life.:angel:
 
dave lackey said:
Yeah, ain't it cool? They sure don't make movies like these anymore and it took me this long to really appreciate some of the finer things in life.:angel:
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speaking of 'finer things', may i be so bold as to suggest a couple fingers of fine bourbon when watching these films? blantons perhaps? with just a splash...:)
tony
 
rbelyell said:
speaking of 'finer things', may i be so bold as to suggest a couple fingers of fine bourbon when watching these films? blantons perhaps? with just a splash...:)
tony
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Ha! Just picked up a bottle of Jack Daniels from my last trip to Tennessee for toasting my beginning a multi-year project, The Deep South.:)

What would Bogie drink?
 
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