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Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre
Directors: John Huston
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English, Italian
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Alpha Video
DVD Release Date: January 22, 2002
Run Time: 88 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (31 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Double Feature - Humphrey Bogart (Beat the Devil & Humphrey Bogart on Film) (DVD)
Sorry to be insisting, but I seem to have gone on a real crusade re "Beat the Devil". I didn't want to, I just wanted to buy a decent DVD version. O boy! There isn't any. And it's not only the quality that is lacking, its the content. All you get is the US recut of Huston's film (1954, 89', not 1953, 100'). It really changes the character of the movie. To the bad. Check: Scene 1 should not be the flashback of the four crooks being marched off to the band - there is no reason to tell the plot as a flashback anyway. Spoils the whole layout. Scene 1 should be the following (censored in the US by the 50s - 50s, still sold today!!! - Censorship Board): Running Time: about 3' 1 The Chelms, EU on the right, a walking stick in his right, JJ on the left, a basket over her left arm, walking towards you down a street. Camera first full shot, then moving in to half shot (waist upwards) , then half portrait (bust upwards). They are followed by a bunch of children, half seen behind their backs. A man they pass turns round to stare at them unpleasently. They turn round (towards each other). 2 Portrait shot of six small boys looking very ugly, glaring at them. Mouth movements as if they were about to spit. 3 The couple turns again, resuming their walk. EU: I must say I do resent the way these people stare at us. You'd think they might be going to spit. JJ: (spits over her left shoulder) EU: Gwendolen, dash it all! JJ: Here, it's unlucky to have someone spit at you unless you spit first. EU: What a filthy superstition, JJ: (chants:) May yours be defiled! EU: What's that about? JJ: These people may be thinking of putting a curse on us, like „may your grandmothers be defiled". That's why I say it first, just in case. EU: Wherefrom do you get all this stuff? JJ: My old Spanish nurse told me. EU: Surely you don't believe it now. You were only a child then. JJ: She wasn't a child. She was old. EU: I only wonder why your parents left you in charge of such a dirty, ignorant woman. JJ: They cared for nothing except to have me off their hands. I told you that. They'd have sold me on the slave market if they hadn't been afraid of the scandal. Besides my father was incompetent. I suppose he just didn't know how to contact the slave people. EU: I don't believe a word of it. Probably they were very fond of you, really. JJ: (making as if to spit again) EU: Stop it, Gwendolen! Don't do it! JJ: You'll be sorry if you run into bad luck just because you didn't take proper precautions. Suppose when we get to Africa there is a native raising and they are slaughtering all the Whites! (prepares to spit again) EU: Gwendolen! JJ: If you don't let me spit I'll just feel like standing here in the street and screeming with terror! EU: (looking to the left) Stop it, Gwendolen! Look: those men! JJ: (looks to the left too) EU: They might be fellow passengers. 4 Morley, Marco Tulli, Peter Lorre descending down a street. Quite a difference, isn't it? Well, ask for the original!...
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