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I'm going with Casablanca. Bogart pulls off an amazing performance as Rick Blaine. He was simply perfect for the role. He and Ingrid Bergman just had amazing on screen chemistry. the story was amazing, and the dialogue was simply stunning. Just think of all of the great quotes from that movie.

"I stick my neck out for nobody."

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

"We'll always have Paris."

"Round up the usual suspects."

"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"

"Here's looking at you, kid"

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

What is it?

I'm going with Casablanca. Bogart pulls off an amazing performance as Rick Blaine. He was simply perfect for the role. He and Ingrid Bergman just had amazing on screen chemistry. the story was amazing, and the dialogue was simply stunning. Just think of all of the great quotes from that movie.

"I stick my neck out for nobody."

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

"We'll always have Paris."

"Round up the usual suspects."

"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"

"Here's looking at you, kid"

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
I'll agree with you on this, though not for the same reasons. For me, there are few more touching scenes than when Victor Laszlo has the band strike up "Le Marseillaise." I feel like a goddamn French patriot when I see that scene. :D

But The Maltese Falcon was good too.

Key Largo. Bogie and Eddie G. onscreen together. Didn't get any better. Well, except for Casablanca, maybe. The African Queen was pretty good too, but definitely not as good as either Key Largo or Casablanca. And of course, Key Largo also had Lauren Bacall.

The Petrified Forest.

You left out "To Have and Have Not". Best Bogey film IMO.

Of course it's Lauren Bacall who really makes the film though...


"If you want me just whistle.
You know how to whistle dontcha...?
Just put your lips together and blow..."

Off topic, but in the old board games club at school (basically the sit-and-play-cards club) the Humphrey Bogart Rule meant that when using the elderly deck of film star playing cards for Pontoon, if you had the Humphrey Bogart card, you won!

I have to say that I'm a little disappointed in my fellow NSGers' (why do I always feel like a Chinese restaurant when I write that?) apparent lack of interest in this thread.

I have to say that I'm a little disappointed in my fellow NSGers' (why do I always feel like a Chinese restaurant when I write that?) apparent lack of interest in this thread.
It's sad but really no surprise. Given the average age of those here I'd wager there's more than a few scratching their head and muttering "Humphrey who..?"

The Xbox generation can't be bothered with movies that aren't even in color..

You left out "To Have and Have Not". Best Bogey film IMO.

Of course it's Lauren Bacall who really makes the film though...


"If you want me just whistle.
You know how to whistle dontcha...?
Just put your lips together and blow..."

"Was you ever bit by a dead bee?"

"Was you ever bit by a dead bee?"The dead ones'll bite ya just as sure as the live one's will.

Personally I am going with other - Bogie and Bacall in The Big Sleep. Also have a soft spot for We're No Angels. Is there a bad Bogart film - as I have yet to see one?

I'm going with Casablanca. Bogart pulls off an amazing performance as Rick Blaine. He was simply perfect for the role.

Which is funny, considering that, before the movie was released, Bogart was considered to have been miscast in the role. It was only after people saw him in the film that they realized that he was the right choice.

It's sad but really no surprise. Given the average age of those here I'd wager there's more than a few scratching their head and muttering "Humphrey who..?"

The Xbox generation can't be bothered with movies that aren't even in color..I have higher expectation of the NSG generation, I guess. ;)

Casablanca, hands down.

What is it?

I'm going with Casablanca. Bogart pulls off an amazing performance as Rick Blaine. He was simply perfect for the role. He and Ingrid Bergman just had amazing on screen chemistry. the story was amazing, and the dialogue was simply stunning. Just think of all of the great quotes from that movie.

"I stick my neck out for nobody."

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

"We'll always have Paris."

"Round up the usual suspects."

"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"

"Here's looking at you, kid"

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

I'll agree with you on this, though not for the same reasons. For me, there are few more touching scenes than when Victor Laszlo has the band strike up "Le Marseillaise." I feel like a goddamn French patriot when I see that scene. :D

But The Maltese Falcon was good too.

I love Casablanca but Bogie wouldn't have been so great without the script the Epstein brothers wrote (one day they got an assignment to convert a play called Everybody Comes To Rick's into a screenplay, and the rest, as they say ...).

All of which begs the question, can you name a bad Humphrey Bogart film? Some might be less good than others, but I don't know that I've seen him do a bad one.

This winter Turner Classic Movies reran a series of Dick Cavett interviews, the best of which, to me, was the impromptu one with Katherine Hepburn (I say "impromptu" because she had come to the studio to see if she wanted to do an interview, Cavett got a camera rolling and they talked for two hours). During the interview she said that Bogart was always a consummate gentleman and an actor who genuinely enjoyed acting. Just the way she spoke of him, you could see that even twenty years after his death, she still thought very highly of him.

I'd say Casablanca's my favourite, but I think he was at his best in The African Queen.

It's a toss-up between Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.

The Xbox generation can't be bothered with movies that aren't even in color.
Poo to you, and your generalisations.

For me, it's The Caine Mutiny. Bogart's portrayal as the Captain, who is either simply stressed or is losing his mind (and which do you believe?) is one of the few that show his depth as an actor and incredible talent. It may not have the power of Casablanca or the on-screen chemistry of The African Queen, but it's a great story superbly told.

I gotta say that Caine Mutiny must be up there...for the reasons stated above...

Casablanca is a utter classic...

1 - thank fuck Ronnie did NOT get the part!

2 - thank fuck they wrote the script as they were filming

3 - thank fuck they got Arthur Edeson to do the cinematography

As The Nazz said above about the playing of the "Le Marseillaise"...it brings even a lump to my throat.

Maltese Falcon is as well...

His best films must be The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the African Queen.

Casablanca is a great film as well but it had so many great actors that its hard to say who carried the film...Bergman or him...

They are all the greatest Bogart film. C'mon, it's Bogie.

They are all the greatest Bogart film. C'mon, it's Bogie.

Yeah...yer right....

It's sad but really no surprise. Given the average age of those here I'd wager there's more than a few scratching their head and muttering "Humphrey who..?"

The Xbox generation can't be bothered with movies that aren't even in color..

I'm of the XBox generation and I can appreciate old movies. Seriously some of the best films are black and white.

I actually refuse to watch the colorized versions of the classics they came out with in the 80s.

I can't believe how few of my generation have seen Citizen Kane, On the Waterfront, Gone with the Wind[, Casablance, The Maltese Falcon, Philadelphia Story, etc. It's really sad.

I'm of the XBox generation and I can appreciate old movies. Seriously some of the best films are black and white.

I actually refuse to watch the colorized versions of the classics they came out with in the 80s.

I can't believe how few of my generation have seen Citizen Kane, On the Waterfront, Gone with the Wind[, Casablance, The Maltese Falcon, Philadelphia Story, etc. It's really sad.

I've had to take Gone with the Wind off of my list. After seeing Titanic for what it was, a shoddy love story pasted onto a tragic historical event, I realized that GwtW was the same :(

To Have and Have Not.

I've had to take Gone with the Wind off of my list. After seeing Titanic for what it was, a shoddy love story pasted onto a tragic historical event, I realized that GwtW was the same :(

I don't know about that. Yes, the love story sucks, but by George, if Clark Gable is not the definition of charisma.

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