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Adapted from a hit Broadway play by Robert Sherwood and starring original cast members Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart, this 1936 suspense drama is set in an aging desert roadhouse café, wher...( read more 
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MCT:May 26, 2008Good gangster drama, it's not really a special movie, but it is very good, it's not boring, leslie howard his speeches are pretty interesting
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MCT:April 15, 2008
a very diologue driven gangster picture that delivers. the acting was very good and the story well told despite the fact that it was incredibly simple. the entire film essentially takes place on a single set and no "event" really takes place throughout the film, but the diologue was poetic. i just had a really good time watching people talk for 80 minutes, and the fate of these well planned characters really mattered to me. great movie.
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MCT:April 6, 2008This film is mainly remembered for having Humphrey Bogart?s breakthrough role, and that?s really all that?s worth remembering it for. Bogart plays a memorable villain here that doesn?t show up until the third act. Until then it?s a bit of a waste, clearly based on a play and poorly expanded for the cinema. Leslie Howard is the lead, and he?s really weak, his acting is exaggerated and the character comes off like a complete wimp. I don?t expect complete naturalism from actors of this era, but he?s particularly bad. It does pick up in the last act and the beginning isn?t completely hard to take. An interesting bit of film archeology, but not overly compelling.
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MCT:February 2, 2008Leslie Howard and Betty Davis have zero chemistry in this film. However the unexpected story and Bogart make this film a real pleasure.
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MCT:January 26, 2008
Notable for including a Black actor as one of the Gangsters, as John Dillinger(who Bogart as Duke Mantee is clearly modeled on) broke out of jail with the help of a Black criminal in for murder, and this has been regularly overlooked in movie versiions of the story, in fact, the only other film where this is shown is the John Milius directed "Dillinger" with Warren Oates, also an excellent gangster film mostly accurate to events. Curiously, this same actor turns up as the Professor in his other film "Red Dawn"....
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MCT:November 23, 2007With references to TS Eliot and medieval French poet Villon, what's not to like? Bogart, Howard, and Davis do a fine job with their archetypal characters.
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MCT:June 21, 2007
I absolutely love this movie. It's very simple with only one location but I love the storyline. Humphrey Bogart was definitely the stand out and it's easy to see how this role launched his career.
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MCT:June 19, 2007
One of my favourite films. Bette Davis has never been so sincere and innocent in a movie. Very interestign setting and idea. You can
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MCT:June 7, 2007
Yes, it is abit cheesy and what not at the beginning; but I just loved the movie after Bogart showed up. The movie became much better after that, I liked the interactions of the characters.
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MCT:August 3, 2006
It's so true when people say that they don't make movies like these anymore. First of all, the script to this moral story is exemplary and almost poetic. The film has been adapted from a stage play an feels very much like one onscreen. I personally like this. The cinematography is superb and the performances by younger Bogart and an even younger Better Davis are top-notch. But the crux of the film lies in Leslie Howard's performance as the drifter. The story is that of a drifter who comes into a dusty old cafe in the middle of the Southwest desert. The land is desolate and devoid of any human life except for this small pit stop. There, this drifter meets Gabrielle and she proceeds to fall in love with him. What follows is a conflict of interest when they are held against their wills in this cafe by a group of bandits lead by Bogart's character. The ending will leave some of you stunned but the message is that of finding beauty in the most unlikely places; finding beauty in tragedy, in isolation and in a place as desolate as the petrified forest. Love can exist anywhere, as long as there are two hearts to carry it. It doesn't have to exist in "romantic" places like Paris or Normandie, it can flourish in a dusty old cafe in the middle of nowhere!
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MCT:March 26, 2006It's impossible to believe the characters actions at times and wiil leaving trying to decide whether you're watching drama or comedy.
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