I will just dispute 1 point with a couple of notes:
1. Huston was a close friend of Bogart and family until the
end and
delivered the funeral eulogy (admittedly, as a secondary
choice to Spencer
Tracy).
2. He was planning to use Bogart (and Cary Grant) for The Man
Who Would Be
King at the time Bogart became ill.
Enrique Bird
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> Subject: Re[2]: RARA-AVIS: TMF - surprises &
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>
> > "Let's not forget John Huston's sequel to his
film version of TMF,
> > _Beat the Devil_ (1954), with Bogart and Lorre
from the original,
> and
> > Robert Morley in the Gutman role."
> >
> > *Beat the Devil* had many of the same cast
members, but they weren't
> > playing the same characters, so it's not a *TMF*
sequel, anymore
> than
> > Huston's follow-up to *TMF*, *Across the
Pacific* is. - Jim Doherty
>
> Yeah, sequel is stretching it, I guess, though some
similar roles, in the
> spirit of a sendup of that kind of film. Someone
posted that Bogart never
> made another Huston pic because *Beat the Devil*
failed. Not quite the
> whole story: Huston agreed with Bogart that the orig.
script was lousy,
> but both wanted to go ahead anyway, and Bogart's
company produced it.
> According to one source, Bogie didn't mind losing the
money at all.
>
>
>
> Bill Hagen
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