In addition to booze and cigarettes, Humphrey Bogart’s great passion was sailing his yacht which was named ‘Santana’. Much as city kid James Cagney yearned for the wide open spaces of country life (see yesterday’s post) city kid Bogie yearned for the open air of the sea. Both men were able to indulge in their respective dreams (courtesy of Jack Warner I suppose) and today we see some rare home movies of Bogie and Bacall partying on Santana sometime in 1948/49. The man with the pipe who appears at 27 seconds is writer/director Richard Brooks (‘Elmer Gantry’, ‘In Cold Blood’) who had just co-written with John Huston the B&B vehicle ‘Key Largo’. Brooks is wisely cultivating his movie star friends in a bid to raise himself from the then-lowly studio contract writer status to the more prestigious director’s role. And he did so a couple of years after that, largely due to his friendship with Cary Grant who agreed to star in his directorial debut–a quite interesting and now totally forgotten movie called ‘Crisis’ (1950). These home movies are part of Brooks’s collection that he donated to the Academy–a rather touching window into the soul of the irascible Brooks, who clearly saved these films out of nostalgia for the period in his life they belonged to.