Movies 'Til Dawn Blog

BOGIE’S BOAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeCU0uaMURE 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

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BARS ARE FOR FIGHTS: ‘TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE’

If you’re going to get into a fight, why not combine it with some drinking? It will certainly make the idea of fighting seem more rational than if you were sober. Which brings us to ‘fight week’. On Monday we watched a fight in a diner (which more than likely

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‘BEAT THE DEVIL’–TRAILER AND SET VISIT

I’ve long harbored the desire to travel back in time to visit certain specific movie sets, ones which were storied and special for various reasons.. ‘To Have and Have Not’ (the meeting of Bogie and Bacall), ‘The General’ (dumping that train into the drink), ‘Citizen Kane’ (enough said), ‘Casablanca’ (the

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