My Review —A Great Film— Your Bogie Fix: out of 5 Bogies! Director: Billy Wilder The Lowdown If there’s one movie that can truly showcase Bogart’s acting range, it’d have to be Sabrina. Hold Linus Larrabee up against any one of his other, more iconic, gangster / detective / murderer read more
My Review —A Weak Film, but Good Fun— Your Bogie Fix: out of 5 Bogies! Director: Ray Enright The Lowdown I just have to start off by saying, that for all the horrible things I’ve heard and read about this movie, I didn’t think that it was nearly as bad as its reputation. It’s read more
My Review —Very Good— Your Bogie Fix: out of 5 Bogies! Director: Michael Curtiz The Lowdown Come slip down the rabbit hole as we have a movie that exists almost entirely in a flashback – but not just a flashback, a flashback within a flashback, which I think even delves into another read more
My Review —A Great Film— Your Bogie Fix: out of 5 Bogies! Director: Archie Mayo The Lowdown Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) is a drifter / writer / hitchhiker making his way across the U.S. when he walks into a little gas station café in the Arizona desert for a “bar-bee-cue.” Gabby read more
My Review —A Very Good Film— Your Bogie Fix: out of 5 Bogies! Director: Lloyd Bacon (Byron Haskin finished the film after Bacon was dismissed when the studio could not renegotiate a new contract.) The Lowdown Bogart is Lt. Joe Rossi, second in command on a Merchant Marine tanker that read more
My Review —Decent— Your Bogie Fix: out of 5 Bogies! Director: Lloyd Bacon The Lowdown A comedy crime drama that can’t quite seem to decide whether it wants to be more comedy or more lighthearted drama. Edward G. Robinson is Johnny Sarto, mob boss and racketeer. In the opening moments read more
My Review —Very Good— Your Bogie Fix: out of 5 Bogies! Director: Vincent Sherman The Lowdown If you’d told me that a comedy / action / thriller from 1941 was going to hold up this well, I don’t know if I would have believed you, but this movie nails all three genres better than most read more
