Can't help but love how Bogie gently breaks the news to Lizabeth that her man has the joined The Choir Invisible when she asks if he has seen him. "He was burnt to a crisp on a slab in the morgue."
A handful of very good Bogie & Edward G. movies are being shown late tomorrow night 8:00 E (Thursday)on TCM. If interested please look for start times in your area.. Some excellent Edward G. early films, I think he is the featured star.. But- they're playing ''Bullets or Ballots'', "Key Largo", and the evening kicks off with James Cagney in "Little Caesar'' .. Enjoy!
ACHTUNG BABY! Two rarely seen Bogie films are coming to TCM.. I've been waiting a long time for them to be aired again.. BLACK LEGION - TCM Tues June 2nd at 8 PM E. THE GREAT O'MALLEY - TCM Wed June 3rd 6:15 AM E. _________________________________________________
"Black Legion" is a really interesting role for Bogart. He's partly sympathetic, part fool, and part coward. The scene where he "checks himself out" with his new firearm is a forerunner of "Taxi Driver"!
REMINDER : Humphrey Bogart stars in "Black Legion" (1937) .. Tonight on TCM 8 PM E. An early Bogie classic.. Still timely, more than ever now.
a great film and unsettling to watch the first time for Bogie fans. He played a most unsympathetic character. And we also have Gloria Graham whom I adore. She is great in The Big Heat. Be sure to catch that one.
Absolutely.. I remember that, and I agree. Bogart shows some great acting in BL, I think it's the only time I remember Bogie breaking down and crying in a film. Scorsese loved the old gangster-noir films, he has said he was heavily influenced by them. Scorsese has done a tremendous job carrying the torch the past 40+ years. Probably my favorite living director..
some sharp dialog in this film. Bogart refers to Elijah Cook ( the actor who seldom survives the third reel) as a cheap gunsel. this can mean gun slinging hoodlum but another meaning is “catamite”. Word comes from Yiddish meaning goose.
I like Bogart most as a side character (Three on a Match, Kid Gallahad) or as the villain/shady character (Two Mrs. Carrolls, Conflict, In a Lonely Place.) In those types of roles I feel I get the most mileage out of his acting style, which is surely a solid personality. Otherwise, for the lead I am more of a Robert Ryan/Van Heflin/Edward Robinson type. I have a tough time relating to a detective lead who responds to people with rapid fire wit as if he read the script in advance.
Watched it last night. The transfer looked great. I no idea what the story was about so I from the title and the fact that Joan was in it, I expected a light comedy. I was Pleasantly surprise to find out that I was wrong. What a crazy story of Sex, Drugs and the Charleston! I like the fact that the title is explained as coming from an expression of the times and is a forewarning of what's coming. The three ladies look superb and I was stunned to see a young Betty Davis in her underwear. She looked stunning! As for Bogart, how young he looks in that one. Just a wee part but a sign of things to come. Ne never looked cheap unlike the other thugs.
Three on a Match is unsurpassed IMO in how much can be stuffed into a 63 minute running time. Also, the most shocking single moment in all of pre-code, wonderfully set up by "what is she doing with that lipstick?"
