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Oh, yes. Huston was willing to patch things up with Bogie. As a matter of fact, even sooner than the African (Africa?) shoot. The two of them were working on Key Largo together right after Treasure was completed.
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Actually, James, my grammarian friend, I'm not quite certain. After all, Tampico, for example, is a Mexican city, not a Mexico city. Therefore, I assumed, that a proper reference to a film shoot in that country would be that it is Mexican. As in "a Mexican shoot."
If only Alfonso Bedoya was here to set me straight. Nah, on the other hand, better that he's not. He'd probably only make reference to those stinkin' badges again.
In answer to your question, I think I'm right but I'm ready to be corrected on it.
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I recently watched a DVD of one of my favourite films, Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It's a picture that I re-visit every three or four years and from which, no matter how well I know the production, I always seem to derive a certain degree of satisfaction. Not many films that I've seen hold up so well to repeat viewings as does this John Huston classic.
Watching the film's earliest scenes which features Bogart on the bum in Tampico, panhandling from strangers (in particular, of course, the film's director as an inside joke), it's always been obvious to me that it was a double of the actor in many of those on-location Tampico shots. There would then be an insert shot of Bogart's face. No big deal, just an observation, but I've always found it a little distracting.
By the way, about that haircut that Bogie gets in the film. You know, the bowl cut with the greasy looking slicked down hair. I don't ever want to have a barber like that. Just saying.

One of the film's greatest strengths, of course, is the Mexican on location shooting that brings a tremendous sense of realism to the adventure. Sure, there are an abundance of studio shots mixed in, as well (such as the campfire scene at night in which a laughing, now totally paranoid Dobbs challenges Curtain (Tim Holt) to see which one can stay awake longer).
But all those shots of the prospectors on the mountain trail, and those shots with mountains in the backdrop, are the real thing, from what I can tell. You can almost feel the heat beating down upon the actors. Typical Huston, the adventurer in him loved the location shooting, while Bogart, who liked his creature comforts, did not. Yes, the cast would retire to a swanky hotel in the evening after every day's shoot but that is still out-in-the-wilds stuff captured on film.

It's interesting hearing on the DVD making of special about the film of the conflict that occurred between Bogart and Huston during the film. The production was going longer than expected with the Mexican shoot and Bogart was concerned that he would miss out on an annual yacht race (from California to Hawaii, I believe).
As a result Bogie would frequently question Huston as to whether the shoot would be wrapping up in time so that he could make the race. Huston must have been somewhat ambiguous in his replies, we'll make it if we can make it sort of thing.
One evening, while they were all having dinner together, Bogie started to question once again when the Mexican shoot would wrap up, only he was doing it louder this time. Huston's response was to reach over and take Bogart's nose between his fingers and twist it, until it hurt.
Lauren Bacall, on location with her husband, spoke up and said, words to the effect, "John, you're hurting Bogie."
Huston released Bogart's nose and no further words were spoken. Bogart never mentioned the yacht race again (which he would, indeed, miss) and Huston and he went on to finish their Mexican scenes without disruption. There was, however, a bit of an estrangement between the two men after the nose twisting incident.
Interestingly, though, it was Bogart that went to Huston afterward to patch things up, not the other way around even though it was the director who had momentarily hurt the actor (and done it in public, too). It goes to show that even though Bogart was clearly a type "A" personality, it was obviously Huston who was the more dominant in their relationship. (Perhaps that's why he was such a great director).
The Bogart-Huston relationship reminds me, in turn, of that of another famous actor-director combo, John Wayne and John Ford, in which, once again, it was the director who was the dominant personality in their friendship, both on and off the set.
The making of special on the DVD also made reference to the fact that the casting in the film had originally envisioned Walter Huston in the role of Dobbs before that was changed to old man Howard after Bogart came on board. There was also casting talk of Edward G. Robinson, though it was not stated for which role.
Quite frankly, whether it had been Dobbs or Howard, I think Robinson would have been dramatically up for the challenge. I've always regarded Howard's character as brighter than Dobbs. And Robinson strikes me as being more cerebral than Bogart (the former was an art connoisseur in private life while the latter spent his past time largely drinking in bars).
I think Edward G. Robinson could have triumphed in either part, but I love the thought of him playing Howard. Having said that, however, I'm glad the casting went as it did. Bogart is brilliant (his best work, as far as I'm concerned), while Walter Huston is almost unrecognizable (especially without his teeth) from anything he had done before. And Huston does, of course, give a performance for the ages.
It would have been fun to see Bogie and Robinson on a mountain trail together, but, what the heck, Key Largo was just around the corner for the two of them anyway, and that film would have Robinson's last classic role, I feel.
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Walter Huston as old man Howard
John Huston, years later, looking a bit like his Dad in that film
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Aside from all this thread's talk about self sacrificing, there are two chief pleasures that I have always derived from Captains of the Clouds.
Okay, make it three. First there's Cagney, of course. Second is the lovely Technicolor photography of bush pilot country, much of its filmed on location around North Bay in 1941.
The third is to watch the rapport between the actors. I particularly enjoy watching Jimmy Cagney and big Alan Hale bouncing off one another. This was their third film together in just two years (the others being Fighting 69th and Strawberry Blonde), and watching them on screen together, it really looks like they got along.
There's a scene in Captains which has a little moment in which Cagney sticks his leg out and playfully trips Hale as he walks by. Hale stumbles a bit but retains his balance, and the scene and dialogue continue. Hale's awkward three step fumble looks completely natural to me, so natural, in fact, that I suspect it was not acting but the real thing.
Cagney was a great one for improvising on the set and this just looks like one of those moments to me, adding a natural little touch between two men paling around. I can't be certain, of course, but I bet that little moment wasn't in the script. Hale played along with it, continuing with his dialogue, and the little throwaway moment remains a part of the film.
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Yeah, Dargo, it all depends upon a person's predisposed attitude.
No, I hadn't heard that the Luftwaffe crashed into Allied planes. Clearly those Germans were suicide fanatics!
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In the final stages of WWII, when the Allies were doing carpet bombings of Toyko with B-29s, Japanese kamikaze pilots were, for a short while, employed to crash their planes into the B-29s. While the success rate for these kamikazes was far less than it had been against Allied warships, because of the speed and mobility of the enemy bombers, still these Japanese suicide pilots were doing in real life what Cagney had done in the movies.
Western eyes regarded kamikaze pilots as fanatics while in the movies, Cagney is seen as a hero for doing the same thing. And, no matter how noble you may regard the cause, they are still all acts of suicide, as far as I'm concerned.
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Thanks for the compliment on the thread, mrroberts. But I STILL think you stole that palm tree, college boy!
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*jamesjazzguitar wrote: But mention Bogie and Bacall and all one gets is 'how romantic'!*
Well, I think, in retrospect, that there's a reason for that. Bogie and Bacall really did love one another, for starters. The marriage changed Bogart to a degree, as well. He became far more settled as a man, entering into fatherhood even if there was a little initial discomfort for him there. And to this day Bacall has pretty well nothing to say about him that isn't affectionate.
Their marriage was not the ideal one, I know, that legend made it out to be (there has been talk, some of it pretty strong, of an affair on both their parts during the union) and that, of course, compromises the inclination to look upon their relationship with rose coloured glasses.
In spite of that, I don't see any indication that, bumps and all that their marriage had, Bogie and Bacall weren't still in love with each other to the end.
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Don't let John Litel hear you say that.
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Well, as I stated earlier to Dargo, James, I think it's far from a given that the police would have shot Smiley. They may have negotiated with him or intimated him into giving up. Who knows?
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Yes, MissW, I agree with you that Uncle Charlie is genuinely fond of both his sister and niece and happy, initially, to be visiting the family.
As much as I love watching Joseph Cotten in this film, one of my favourite scenes in it does not include him. That is the scene in which Teresa Wright, now suspicious of her uncle and desperate to know why he intentionally destroyed one page in a newspaper, goes to the town library to find that page.
When she finally finds the page the camera scans down it until, BAM!, we (through her eyes) see an article about the Merry Widow Murderer. What really makes this scene a memorable one for me is composer Dimitri Tiomkin's decision to play the Merry Widow Waltz off key as the camera dwells on the page.
Wright slowly and sadly rises from the table, and as she leaves the library Hitchcock pulls his camera back, reducing her in size to emphasize her emotional isolation at the moment.
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Behind the scenes

This appears is be a multiple exposure of Alfred Hitchcock showing Teresa Wright how to effectively struggle on screen. Either that, or Wright had a heck of a rougher time working with the director than she ever let on.
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Well, I will agree that Cotten had more charm than Casey Adams. Adams always had that canyon wide smile and the most obnoxious annoying laugh that I've ever heard, that went something like "YUCKYUCKYUCKYUCKYUCK!" Yuck is right!
Well, Adams does have one of the more memorable lines in Niagara. After Monroe shows up in a low cut red dress, Adams subtlely explodes, "SOMEONE GET OUT THE FIRE HOSE!"
Yuckyuckyuckyuckyuck!
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I agree, mrroberts, that Cotten is sympathetic in Niagara. But I thought the performance lacked the charm and elegance that helps to make his work in the Hitchcock film so memorable.
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*MissW wrote: Also, people are a lot more suspicious, and more aware, of, shall we say, aberrant behaviour, than folks were then. One reason why Hitch chose to set the story in a small community, with a "wholesome" family, is because their innocence in such matters would serve as a kind of blind for them. It simply does not occur to them that anyone living in their midst would be capable of murder, especially the kind which "Uncle Charlie" is guilty of.*
That's an excellent point, MissW. One of the charms of this small town family is that they seem to be a little, well, naive. They have only known a small town existence and the abberant behaviour most often associated with the big city just wouldn't be a part of their combined histories. Therefore, what may seem obvious to us about Uncle Charlie's strange behaviour they would probably be inclined to dismiss.
On the subject of Uncle Charlie, I've always regarded him as a bit of a tragic figure. Joseph Cotten shows us the disturbed psychosis, the "world is a filthy sty" mindset that he has which, in turn, has made him a psychopath without qualms about strangling an elderly woman.
Cotten, however, also shows us another side of Charlie. He shows us an effortless charm and grace and elegance in the character, as well. Yes, I know that Charlie uses those virtues now as a fascade by which he deceives others, including potential victims. However, I like to think those same graces also represent the man that he might have been if it wasn't for his mental illness.
I think Shadow of a Doubt is one of Hitchcock's best films, providing Joseph Cotten with one of the very best roles of his career. I often marvel at Cotten's work, particularly in the '40s. Not only could he play a smooth charmer such as in this film or Since You Went Away, but he was equally good at playing an ordinary everyman type who could be a little bit of a stumblebum (Journey Into Fear, The Third Man).
Joe Cotten was in a lot of good movies but somehow never seemed to get the full attention that his performances deserved. Shadow of a Doubt is one of the opportunities he had in which I suspect most viewers would acknowledge his marvelous effectiveness, with a smooth surface charm masking a cold icy interior.
Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt . . .
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Charming and elegant on the surface . . .
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But twisted and perverse inside, a man who sees the world as a filthy sty.
What a great performance, frightening and yet, to me, oddly sympathetic for the man he might have been!
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Who knows, Dargo. Maybe Ann Doran's character from Pitfall went home one night to hubby John Litel, and Litel said, "Hey, guess who I gave one of my patented lectures to today. Your boss!"
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Yeah, I know what you mean, Dargo. That lecture by John Litel does have a Production Code feel to it, doesn't it? Not at all dissimilar to those closing seconds at the end of the MGM "Crime Doesn't Pay" series, when an authority figure turns to the camera and warns the audience against the avoidable perils of whatever that short's subject had been about.
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Yes, but if Mason looked like Raymond Burr, Scott would be afraid of her own attorney.
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Well, Dargo, if Powell had called the police when he got the word that Smiley was on the way, they may have been able to pick him up or negotiate with him outside the house before anything happened. Either that or if Smiley spotted police cars around the house he would have taken off and probably have been picked up by them later.
In any event, if the police had been called instead, things couldn't have gotten any worse for Smiley than turned out to be the case.
Glad you enjoyed Pitfall. I believe that TCM has shown all of Dick Powell's films from his late '40s-early '50s tough guy-film noir period over the past few years. (There aren't that many of them, unfortunately). The one exception is a hunt-for-the-Nazi in the French Foreign Legion 1948 drama called Rogues Regiment.
The channel only showed To the Ends of the Earth once, though, to the best of my knowledge. And it is one of the best of the entire collection, as far as I'm concerned. A 1948 Columbia release, it casts Powell as a U.S. narcotics agent on an international hunt for opium smugglers. The film does a lot of fast paced world travel in that hunt, too, from the mid-East to Cuba, filmed in a semi-documentary style, and with a corker of a surprise ending. Here's hoping TCM plays this baby again some time.
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I gather by your comment then, James, that you agree with me in my assessment of Uncle Charley's family not readily picking up on his peculiar behaviour. Love, as they say, blinds.
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I can't really agree, Andy, that the family should have seen through the pecularities of Uncle Charley mainly because he is well established as such a beloved figure with that family beforehand. Call it the rose coloured glasses syndrome, if you wish.
The audience, of course, knows from its first sighting of Cotten lying on his bed alone in that shoddy room that something is "off" about him, and see him soon on the run from two undercover agents.
But his family, on the other hand, in particular that sister who absolutely adores him, will be blind for a long time to pecularities that a more objective observer (such as yourself) would pick up on. The family has blinders on, not because they're particularly slow witted, but because he's a family member they haven't seen in a long while and they are happy to see back in their home again.
Of course, with time, Teresa Wright's character starts to have the very growing suspicions about him of which you speak.
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Well, James, prison released or not, Smiley was the jealous type. Wasn't the gun that he got given to him by Raymond Burr, who kept egging him on?
Burr had more to do with the events that ensued than any of those hardened shoulders Smiley rubbed up against in prison.
I agree with you about Jane Wyatt but then I liked all the cast in Pitfall.
I like Dick Powell's minimalist acting style in the film noirs he made. I don't see a lot of ego in him as an actor, trying to hog the spotlight for himself. And he could be generous, too, in letting another actor have that spotlight if the film benefited from it (I'm thinking, in particular, of Richard Erdman's supporting performance in Cry Danger, a film on which Powell was producer so he really called the shots).
There are few film careers that had a screen image change quite as dramatic (and effective) as Dick Powell's.
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One of my favourite moments in Juarez occurs when the mad Carlotta, (Bette Davis) sitting in her chair in Paris, rises from that chair and walks to the window, raises her arm and calls out her husband's name. "Maxel," she says.
The scene then dissolves to Maximillian in Mexico nobly walking to his death as he faces a firing squad. Carlotta's scream of "Maxel!" can be briefly heard and, as she does so, Brian Aherne, as Maximillian, momentarily turns his head to the side, almost as if he can hear her.
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Well, James, what kind of a self respecting film noir would it be if everyone in it didn't have a gun tucked away somewhere? If Dick Powell's family had had a dog, I've sure the dog would have chewed on his bone until it was shaped like a gun.

The better to kill you with, my dear.
Look, even Dick Powell's shadow had one in the publicity still!
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Maybe next time I'll hold off on a reply and let you do all the typing, James.
And, yes, when Powell has that impulsive dinner date with Scott, he does miss an evening bridge game involving his wife and business co-hort. The film does skirt over any explanation that he undoubtedly would have had to supply. I hadn't noticed that before.

Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson
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Yes, the location shooting for Treasure must have been downright beautiful (all the cast did reside in a luxury hotel) compared to The African Queen, largely filmed in the Congo and Uganda. Bogart, however, was one of the few people on that shoot that didn't get sick, claiming that he avoided the local water and fortified himself with whiskey. (Charlie Allnut would have been proud of him).
Katharine Hepburn, who had initially looked scornfully upon both Bogart and John Huston for their alcohol consumption, later commented that the joke was on her since she got deathly ill during the location shooting of the film but the two boozers fought off the bugs with their alcohol intake.
Much the same happened seven years later, when Huston also filmed The Roots of Heaven in Africa, with both he and Errol Flynn's drinking shielding them from the illnesses that befell other cast members.
Yes, the joke would be on Hepburn