ROUND 2: Entertainment - The Films of Humphrey Bogart
We'll describe 10 Humphrey Bogart movies, in chronological order
(except perhaps for movies released in the same year). In each case,
you must name the title.
1. In this 1936 film Humphrey Bogart plays Duke Mantee, a gangster who
takes hostage the occupants of an Arizona restaurant, one of them
played by Leslie Howard. They had acted the same roles on stage and
Howard insisted that Bogie be cast in the film version. It made him
a star, but also led to him being typecast in a series of criminal
roles that continued until "High Sierra" 5 years later.
The Petrified Forest
2. The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca would be the next two usual
suspects, but we'll pass right over them and on to 1944, for the
first of Bogie's five films with Lauren Bacall. This is the one
where she says to him, "You know how to whistle, don't you? Just
put your lips together and... blow."
To Have and Have Not
3. In this 1947 film with Lauren Bacall, the star spends the first
half-hour with his head in bandages as he recovers from plastic
surgery. Only then do we see the face of Humphrey Bogart.
Dark Passage
4. Bogart also made five films with Edward G. Robinson. The last of
these is set in Florida, where the characters weather a hurricane.
Key Largo (1948)
(also his fifth and last film with Bacall)
5. Walter Huston and Tim Holt join Humphrey Bogart in Mexico, where
the lure of gold tears friendships apart. John Huston directed.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
6. Humphrey Bogart. Katharine Hepburn. Enough said.
The African Queen (1951)
7. In this 1952 film, Bogie plays a newspaper editor who sets out to
expose a mob leader... while his paper is in danger of bankruptcy.
Deadline - U.S.A.
(accept "Deadline")
8. The cast of this quirky and lighthearted 1953 film includes Robert
Morley, Peter Lorre, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida as well
as Humphrey Bogart, all conniving for the rights to an African mine
as their ship is detained for repairs at a small Italian port.
Beat the Devil
9. Bogart played one more criminal role in 1955 in this movie about
what today we would call a "home invasion". Fredric March plays
the man of the house.
The Desperate Hours
10. Bogart's last film was made in 1956. He plays boxing writer Eddie
Willis, who takes a job as a press agent and comes to realize that
he really doesn't care for the boxing business.
The Harder They Fall