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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Comedies Movies, Action/Adventure Videos, Action, Adventure, Crime, Recommended, Thieves, Scams And Cons, 1950s, Africa, Italy, All-Star | | Starring | Humphrey Bogart, Bernard Lee, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones, Ivor Barnard, Marco Tulli, Edward Underdown | | Director | John Huston | | Cinematographer | Oswald Morris | | Composer | Franco Mannino | | Editor | Ralph Kemplen | | Music Director | Lambert Williamson | | Production Designer | Wilfred Shingleton | | Screenwriter | John Huston, Truman Capote | | Source Writer | James Helvick |
John Huston and Truman Capote co-wrote the screenplay while working on location. A whimsical parody of The Maltese Falcon and other 1940's detective movies in which Bogart so often starred (and Huston directed).Tells of the exploits of a group of travelers on a steamboat who each hopes to carry off a huge swindle in the uranium fields of Northern Africa. While not a commercial success upon its release, the film has come to define the genre of spy movie spoofs.
James Helvick was the pseudonym for novelist Claud Cockburn.
Filmed on location in Italy and in Shepperton Studios in England.
Released in the United States in March 1954. Released in UK in 1953.
Original running time was 100 minutes. Video version runs 89 minutes.
Co-produced by Santana.
Additional distribution company: Independent Film Distributors.
Rated BBFC U by the British Board of Film Censors. Beat The Devil Quotes/Excerpts: "Harry, we must beware of these men. They're desperate characters. Not one of them looked at my legs." -- Gwendolen Chelm (Jennifer Jones)
"Trouble with England, it's all pomp and no circumstance. You're very wise to get out of it, escape while you can." -- Billy Dannreuther (Humphrey Bogart)
"Time! Time! What is time? The Swiss manufacture it. The French hoard it. Italians want it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook." -- O'Hara (Peter Lorre)
"Only the phonies liked it. It's a mess!" -- Humphrey Bogart on the film
"The formula of 'Beat the Devil' is that everyone is slightly absurd." -- John Huston on the film Beat The Devil Reviews: "...The movie has above all effortless charm....We can relax and share the amusement of the actors, who are essentially being asked to share their playfulness..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "Capote's dialogue is often witty...and the actors seem to be enjoying themselves."
-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound Beat The Devil | List Price | $3.95 (You save $2.22) | | Studio | Diamond Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1954 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  41878  | | CD Universe Part number | 1836360 | | Catalog number | 97012 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 31, 2003 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Additional Info | Remastered | | Movie Details | B&W; Remastered |
Beat The Devil Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Bogart is awesomeness incarnate
More comedic than his usual stuff but just as outstanding, this dvd is top pick
Submitted by Ray C. (Victoria, BC, Canada) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Short version of a fine film
Don't get too excited. Delta stamped this DVD and got sloppy. On both covers it lists the 100 minute version of this fine film but the DVD simply shows the short version. The DVD is pretty poorly made. Buy another one.
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 You can't "Beat the Devil", but it's fun trying
Take director John Houston, a classic French farce, a motley crew of nuts bent on space-age larceny, dialog by Truman Capote, and let them do their worst. Amazing how well this little film has held up over 50 years. It's worth its weight in gold for the fashions alone.-- What I've always liked most about it, aside from the zany goings-on was the clarity of the light in the original black-and-white. In Shakespeare's words, "What fools these mortals be."
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