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Article: Bogie in Africa. (actor Humphrey Bogart)
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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By 1951 HUMPHREY BOGART had made sixty-three films, mostly under contract with Warner Brothers, and had recently done two movies that showed Bogart predictably being Bogart. Neither The Enforcer, a well-constructed gangster thriller, nor Sirocco, a poor man's Casablanca, offered him much of a challenge. He was terribly bored with conventional roles, despite the high salary and share of the profits. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), an ambitious project, co-written and directed by his close friend John Huston, shot on location in acute discomfort, would extend Bogart's range. The African Queen gave him a chance to display his wit and humanity, his fine grasp of ...