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Results: Humphrey Bogart Film Noir Movies ** Part Two ** Smoke filled scenes, long shadows, and tragic tales of detectives or criminals make for some of Bogart's greatest and most complex performances.

Published on 08/29/2023
By: fsr1kitty
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Movies
Humphrey Bogart, one of the great leading men of classic Hollywood cinema, spent much of his career bringing dark, tragic, and complex characters to life in the film noir genre. Bogart would play heroic, or at least good, characters like private investigators or journalists. Bogart possessed the talent and the willingness to play villainous characters. He found great success playing immoral gangsters and criminals. Whether hero or villain, Bogart brought authenticity to his performances in his greatest film noirs.
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In High Sierra - Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, where a tense siege ensues. But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with two women during the brief planning of the robbery. Have you seen High Sierra?
Yes
20%
411 votes
No
57%
1188 votes
Undecided
8%
178 votes
Not Applicable
15%
323 votes
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The Harder They Fall - After 17 years as a recognized and respected sports journalist in New York City, Eddie Willis finds himself out of a job when his newspaper folds. He's approached by a major fight promoter, Nick Benko, to act as a public relations man for his new heavyweight fighter Toro Moreno. Eddie knows the how the fight game works and after watching Toro in the ring, realizes Toro is nothing but a stiff who has no hope of succeeding. Benko offers him a sizable salary and an unlimited expense account and given his financial situation, he agrees. Benko's strategy to make money is one that has been used time again. Starting in California and moving east, they arrange a series of fights for Toro with stiffs and has-beens. All of the fights are rigged to build up his record and get him a fight with the heavyweight champion, Buddy Brannen, where they will make a sizable profit at the gate. Along the way, one boxer gets killed in the ring and Eddie begins to have serious doubts about what he is doing. Have you ever seen The Harder They Fall?
Yes
14%
291 votes
No
63%
1326 votes
Undecided
7%
155 votes
Not Applicable
16%
328 votes
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Angels with Dirty Faces - Boyhood friends Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly have taken different paths in life. After Rocky is arrested, he is sent to a juvenile facility and becomes a lifelong tough guy and criminal; meanwhile, Jerry goes straight and becomes a Catholic priest ministering to people in the same neighborhood where he and Rockey grew up. When Rocky is released from prison, he resumes his criminal lifestyle and becomes much admired by many of the local kids. Worried that the kids will follow Rocky into the criminal world, Jerry works hard to keep them on the straight and narrow. When Rocky is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair, Jerry asks him for one last favor. Have you ever seen Angels with Dirty Faces?
Yes
17%
355 votes
No
59%
1248 votes
Undecided
8%
177 votes
Not Applicable
15%
320 votes
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The Roaring Twenties - After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere. Have you ever seen The Roaring Twenties?
Yes
15%
305 votes
No
61%
1289 votes
Undecided
8%
169 votes
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16%
337 votes
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In a Lonely Place - Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt, and Steele's inner demons come between them? Have you ever seen In a Lonely Place?
Yes
11%
225 votes
No
66%
1388 votes
Undecided
8%
160 votes
Not Applicable
16%
327 votes
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