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To: V K Lee
Bogie and John Huston had got joined at the hip since the Maltese Falcon. It had been Huston's directorial debut and Bogart wasn't slow to pick up on the significance of such a strong rookie effort.

Bogie and Huston did five films together, three and a half of which are classics. I think Bogart's Fred C Dobbs in Huston's "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was his greatest performance, a gradual descent into madness.

Bogart & Huston became drinking buddies, which in Bogart's world made Huston as close as a blood relative. They were about the only two in the cast and crew who didn't come down with malaria or dysentery during the filming of The African Queen, which Bogie attributed to he and Huston staying perpetually sloshed on gin and tonics.

There were two African Queens, and one of them ended up in the ownership of a scuba shop on Key Largo (ironic, since one of Bogart-Huston's classics was called after the island). For years it sat out of the water, right at dockside where anybody who wanted could have a look and take some snaps at no charge. Then they went full refurb on it and now are doing tourist cruises on it.

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Before, during, and after the resto-mod.

Clint Eastwood did a film titled "White Hunter Black Heart" about how Huston's obsession with killing an elephant while they were on the Dark Continent played havoc with the filming of The Africa Queen. It's not such a great movie, and Gregory Peck's "The Macomber Affair" is a much better film about hunting African dangerous game, but it's an interesting insight into how Huston very nearly sabotaged an incredible work of film art for the sake of getting to kill an elephant before it was outlawed.

14 posted on 07/29/2023 11:34:24 AM PDT by threefinger
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To: threefinger

I think his performance in “Treasure” was excellent; and second only to his performance in “African Queen.” His relationship with John Houston brought out the best in both of them. IMHO, Bogart was the greatest American actor.


18 posted on 07/29/2023 12:54:12 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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