I'm not alone in this, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I have never watched Casablance. In fact, I don't think I've ever watched a movie with Humphrey Bogart in it.
Yes, I'm a philistine. Yes, I'm a fool. But, more than that, I think I'm probably missing out on a fair few jokes in the Bogie Man.
Would any kind, knowledgeable and intelligent person be willing to put together a sort of "guide to..." the first couple of episodes?
...your not alone, apart from 'play it again Sam', which ive been told he never really said, im in the dark too...
I've never watched Casablance (I'm young, can't have done everything by 16). I have watched one of Boggie's (To Have and Have Not)a couple of times and a docu on him, jolly good, it's where he met his wife.
You should watch Casablanca as this features in the new series. It's on DVD and your local chain video shop might have it. Also, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The Big Sleep, anything with Bogie in basically.
Keep watching the dyatime TV schedules, kid!
Don't forget The African Queen. And The Petrified Forest. And The Roaring Twenties.
The only one I own is Key Largo on dvd, if anyone wants to send it on a tour of the message board, thats fine. I'd even swap it for something else. Great film, I wouldn't say it's a key to the Bogie Man or anything though.
Can't believe no-one's mentioned The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ("Badges? We don' need no stinkin' badges!"), The Desperate Hours, Dark Passage or In A Lonely Place yet.
Casablanca is the only Bogie film I've seen.
We got Oddgirl's mum a boxset of Bogie films for Christmas - I was very tempted to break it open & watch them all before wrapping it up, but I didn't.
It had Casablanca, Maltease Falcon, the Big Sleep & Key Largo in it.
Saw the even longer version of The Big Sleep at the NFT a coupleof years ago, which was interesting, as the film wasn't quite as confusing as the shorter version, but somehow not quite as goodfor it.
casablanca's one of those films ive been desperate to watch for years, i can't believe ive never seen it, i mean why do they repeat endless shite & never play stuff like this on terra-limited-nothing-on-ever-but-friends tele ?
every time theres one of those fugging '100 greatest films you've never been able to see' programmes it really peees me off, all those teasing tasters & never the fecking films. we are in the age of the three second attention span info bite information cramm vacuum. grrr.
Yeah! (?)
I only saw two Bogie films but they were both good stuff. "Top of the world, ma!" What film was that? That was great.
White Heat.
James Cagney.
1949.
Knew that was Cagneys line but I think Bogart was in that one too.
Bogart wasn't in White Heat. But they were both in The Roaring Twenties (1939).
I've never seen any Bogart films. In fact I have never seen many films I should have. Like Apocalypse Now. And Psycho. And many many more apparrent classics. I've made a new years resolution to watch more important films.
I'm doing the same - got Vertigo, Rear Window, Some Like It Hot, Taxi Driver and various other DVDs in the New Year sales and every one of them turned out to be as good as they said it'd be.
Its a good resolution to make - I had to restrain myself from frisbying DVDs at the idiots in HMV who were saying how they were going to see White Noise and Alexander "so they could see just how bad they were" ... Arrrrgggh! Why waste a fiver plus and hours of your life watching a film you know is going to be bad, when you could watch something good?
I bet you're thinking of Angels With Dirty Faces, Jared. Bogey's in that one, as a bit of a heel, and Cagney's in it, too. Brilliant film.
Well you should watch Casablance because it's a great film. Simple as.
Me dads a big fan of Humphrey DeForest Bogart so it's easy to buy his presents - anything related to the great man.
Odders there's not a duffer in that boxset, all worth a watch.
i watched casablanca it was brillant. you should also watch citezen kane its a very importent movie
I know this is a tangate,But its gumshoe stuff. Did anyone catch Rourke and De Niro in Angel Heart last night? A real Alan Parker film.
I saw citizen Kane, and I thought "meh" Though it was probably spoilerised that with an alarming number scenes I was reminded of Simpsons parodies of them and it was a a lil' distracting
Dudley, you should look for a synopsis on the IMDB.
But, for what it's worth, Rick Blaine owns a bar in Casablanca. That's in Morocco, isn't it? Anyway, Casablanca is under German wartime occupation. Some missing German travel documents come into Rick's possession, which can be used to fly two people to America. Rick can sell them on the black market. Then his old girlfriend Ilse turns up, accompanied by her husband Victor Laszlo, a Czech resistance leader wanted by the Nazis. Rick isn't pleased to see Ilse, who ran off and left him in Paris.
Just watch Casablanca, Dudley. It's a great and you'll appreciate the Bogie Man stories more.
- Trout
Trout's right - it's a win:win situation.
DXB - so you're saying I should visit my mother-in-law more often? ;)