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Genres:
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Adventure /
Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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John Huston
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Actors:
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Bernard Lee,
Robert Morley,
Gina Lollobrigida,
Ivor Barnard,
Edward Underdown,
Marco Tulli,
Mario Perrone,
Humphrey Bogart,
Jennifer Jones,
Peter Lorre
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Duration:
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89 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)69.5
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Plot Summary:
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Dead beat THE DEVIL is a whimsical mockery of THE MALTESE FALCON and other 1940's detective movies in which Bogart so often starred (and John Huston directed). The film tells of the exploits of a group of travelers on a steamboat, each of whom hope to carry below average a huge swindle in the uranium fields of Northern Africa. While not a commercial success upon its release, the fog has arrive to define the genre of spy moving picture spoofs.
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Beat the Devil
This sophisticated universal romp (co-scripted by Truman Capote and John Huston) obligated to have been more satirize to make than to watch. Just, the splendid cast ensures that the jokes looseness and the romance works. The spoof on Huston's masterpieces The Maltese Falcon and The Catch of the Sierra Madre is there for those who recognise it, tipped insane by the casting of Peter Lorre as ooze as Humphrey Bogart working again here with Huston. Amazingly saintly are a blonde, cheeky Jennifer Jones as the wife of oh-so-English Edward Underdown, she a pathological fibber, he an "is-he-or-isn't-he" fellow of the peerage, and goonish gangsters Robert Morley and Ivor Barnard. Not mind-boggling leak appreciated in its day, this quirky people-afar has achieved something of a ...
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