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Beat the Devil: Directed by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley. On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple.
Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida, in her American debut, and featuring Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee.
John Huston's "Beat the Devil" (1953) shows how much Hollywood has lost by devaluing its character actors. In an age when a $20 million star must be on the screen every second, this picture could not be made.
A quartet of international crooks (Peterson, O'Hara, Ross, and Ravello) are stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the an English couple, the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but all is not as it seems.
Beat the Devil (1953) A riotous, imperfect, silly, brazen, forward thinking, throwaway, brilliant spoof. For starters, you know something will happen with Huston directing Bogart. And throw in an aging bulging Peter Lorre as a German named O'Hara.
Billy and Maria Dannreuther are among a number of travelers stranded in Italy en route to Africa. While the Dannreuthers seem like an average couple, they have the same goal as Mrs. Gwendolen ...
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Beat the Devil -- (Movie Clip) Typical American American Billy (Humphrey Bogart) entertains the fantastical English Gwendolyn (Jennifer Jones) at the Italian villa he claims he used to own, in John Huston's Beat the Devil, 1954, from a script by Huston and Truman Capote.
Humphrey Bogart Cult Comedy | Beat The Devil (1953) | Full Movie | Retrospective. A group of rogues and a seemingly innocent British couple are on their way to make some money in Africa. When...
Beat the Devil is a 1951 thriller written by Claud Cockburn under the pseudonym James Helvick. Cockburn used the pseudonym, though he had left the British Communist Party in 1947, he was still considered a "Red" during the early years of the Cold War, which was rife with anti-communist sentiment.
The plot of Beat The Devil involves a band of four motley characters intent on stealing uranium from British East Africa for a quick profit, in a land deal brokered by the Bogart character,(named Billy Dannreuther).
