Beat the Devil (The Film Detective Restored Version)

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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  6DF3R
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DVD-R Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: July 27, 2021
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: The Film Detective

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User Ratings: 2,879
Rating: C+ -- It looks like it's going to be a riot, but turns out almost laugh free. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Aug 23, 2009
A clever if confusing spoof of the genre pictures [John] Huston had made in a more serious manner in previous years Full Review
Film Journal International
Feb 16, 2017
Rating: 4/4 -- If Beat the Devil puzzled audiences on its first release, it has charmed them since. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 13, 2001
Rating: 2.5/5 -- You have to wonder what Capote and John Huston were thinking in trying to make a satire that didn't have any actual jokes.
Filmcritic.com
Sep 27, 2002
Rating: 1/5 -- An all-star home movie.
Film Threat
Jan 11, 2008
An informal comedy that is at times critical, entertaining, and even discursive. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Aug 16, 2019
Perhaps the oddest film Humphrey Bogart ever made. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Oct 15, 2005

Description by OLDIES.com:

Writer/Director John Huston's Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the front man for a group of swindlers stranded in an Italian port town, scheming to take ownership of uranium-rich land in Africa. Also stranded is a naive British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chelm (Edward Underdown and Jennifer Jones). Flirtations and a web of lies ensue among the group, testing romantic loyalty and allegiances among them. The last of six collaborations between Huston and Bogart, Beat the Devil evokes an effortless wit and charm found only in classic film gems like this.

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  • Sales Rank: 25,860
  • UPC: 887936993916
  • Shipping Weight: 0.22/lbs (approx)
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