[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

James, we have similar taste on this one. The Sea Wolf also my favourite Edward G. Robinson film, a movie that deserves to be far better known than it is.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

My favourite Bogart film, with my favourite Bogart performance:

 

 

A brilliant study of adventure and greed, based on a novel by the mysterious B. Traven. Bogart's gradual descent into paranoia and madness remains chillingly believable, yet, in the end, the audience does not regard his character disdainfully but, rather, as that of an average person who is also a flawed human being. Even the characters of Howard and Curtain refer to him affectionately as "Dobbsie" at that film's memorable conclusion.

 

 

And then there's the rest of an extraordinary cast, none more so than Walter Huston, who had to be convinced to forego his ego a bit by removing his dentures for the role of Howard, the wily gold prospecting veteran, who leads the two eager young gringos, played by Bogie and Tim Holt, up the Mexican mountain trails in a search for a fortune. Huston invests his character with the in depth wisdom of man who is not only a wilderness survivor but one who knows too well about the evil that can lie in a man's soul. While his character is reluctantly ready to commit murder, if necessary, to protect his goods, Huston still brings a crucial sense of moral decency to the part.

 

 

Ultimately, Huston's portrait of Howard is that of grizzled old timer who has experienced the highs and lows of life and became a better human being because of them. This has got to be one of my three or four favourite screen performances of all time. I can watch Treasure every few years, and never tire of it, if only because of the sheer pleasure I receive from watching Walter Huston in this role. The way this veteran actor, at the end of his career, plays the part, I only wish I could have known Howard.

 

Nor has any other actor in film done quite done so joyous a happy jig as does Huston when he finds traces of the precious metal. Upon observing the depth of Walter Huston's performance during production, Bogart said, "One Huston is bad enough, but two is murder."

 

One of my very favourite moments in the film occurs in literally Huston's final seconds on screen. After Howard and Curtain have said their goodbyes to one another and both are on horseback, there is a wonderful magical final touch thanks to Walter Huston.

 

As the actor pulls back on the reigns of his horse Huston's face seems to be drinking in all of Tim Holt's features. It's the look of a man who knows he will never see that other man again. I can't forget that moment. It's all in Huston's eyes. Thank you, Walter Huston, and thank you, director John Huston, for guiding your remarkable father into a performance for the ages. I'm trying here but I truly lack the words to adequately expression my love for this acting accomplishment of the highest order.

 

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But let us also not forget the classic contribution made by Mexican actor Alfonso Bedoya as the Gold Hat bandit. Bedoya has one of movies' most memorable lines, sometimes misquoted, when, after being asked to produce a badge following his claim to be a mounted policeman, he proclaims, "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

 

 

Tim Holt is fine as Curtain but a part of me (a very large part) still wishes that John Garfield, up for consideration for the role, had played the part instead. I'm not quite certain why Garfield didn't play Curtain but I guess I can understand why he may have turned it down (if he did) since the roles of Dobbs and Howard are clearly the show stoppers of the production. As it turned out, Garfield would work with director John Huston in 1949, after all, in a less than memory production called We Were Strangers.

 

To add to Treasure's sense of realism, much of it was shot in Mexico, on the streets of Tampico, as well as the wilder regions of Durango. A great, at times, rousing musical score by Max Steiner remains one of the composer's masterpieces, in my opinion, tremendously adding to the film's appeal.

 

During production of the film novelist B. Traven sent an agent, Hal Croves, to the Mexican locations, as advisor on the details of Mexican life.

 

Here is a shot of Tim Holt and the two Hustons meeting with advisor "Hal Croves":

 

 

And here is a photo of the mysterious novelist B. Traven:

 

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Think there's a slight resemblance between Traven and Croves?

 

It wasn't until a photograph of Traven appeared in the newspapers upon the time of the author's 1969 death that John Huston was able to confirm it had been him on the set of his film.

 

Said Huston about "Croves": "(He) had a slight accent. It didn't sound German to me but certainly European. I thought he might well be Traven but, out of delicacy, I didn't ask."

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

*I don't believe Cagney or Robinson ever smoked cigarettes for their roles (unusual at that time).*

 

I think Eddie G. compensated for that in others ways. He did die of cancer, though I can't say if it was smoking related.

 

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And it wasn't always cigars, either:

 

 

Even Cagney smoked in the movies, on the rare occasion:

 

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Unlike Bogart and Robinson, however, I think that Cagney was a fitness freak, to a degree.

 

 

 

 

That should come as no surprise, as there was always more of a physicality to Cagney's performances than there was for either Robinson or Bogart.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

Crazyblonde, The Ten Commandments was a significant film in Edward G. Robinson's career because, at a time of great difficulty for him to gain film employment because of his left wing political viewpoints, director Cecil B. DeMille (one of Hollywood's staunchest conservatives) gave him his blessing by casting him in this film.

 

Having said that, however, I do NOT get the impression that admirers of Eddie G. hold his performance as Dathon in any kind of high esteem. Quite the opposite, it is even considered to be a kind of campy effort on his part by many. When Eddie says, in his best gangster fashion, "Where's your Saviour NOW?" well, many viewers have found that Little Caesar nasal snarl moment a bit of a guilty pleasure. When Robinson imitators like to lampoon a moment like that, it's one of the few times in which Eddie G. failed to be taken seriously as an actor.

 

I fully realize that many viewers regard this DeMille Biblical epic as a family viewing holiday tradition. You obviously feel the same way about it. I don't, however, think that this film, famous as it may be, represents Edward G. Robinson near his best as a performer. Neither Bogart nor Cagney ever gave performances that have the same aura of camp about them. Then, again, neither actor ever appeared in a DeMille production, many of his films known for their stilted, totally unreal dialogue, at times, that would be a challenge for many actors.

 

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[Station West and That Fist Fight]

I watched the beginning of Station West, a pretty nifty little 1948 western that played on TCM a few days ago. It's a fairly intriguing film that will probably appeal to film noir fans because it has a number of cast members far more associated with that genre than westerns - star Dick Powell, as well as Jane Greer, Raymond Burr and Steve Brodie.

 

The film also has a fist fight staged between Powell and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. Now you remember Williams, I hope, usually recalled as playing Errol Flynn's affable muscle brained lunkhead sidekick in a few early '40s westerns, along with the likes of Alan Hale.

 

 

But it's a different Big Boy in Stage West. There is no humour to be found in this characterization. He's big, intimidating and a town enforcer. Nobody wants to mess with him, and for good reason. This guy means business and is ready to crunch anyone with his fists if they even look at him cross-eyed.

 

Dick Powell, being the film's hero, of course, is still ready to tangle with him. As Big Boy stands towering over Powell as Dick sits at a saloon table gabbing with Jane Greer, Powell makes it apparent that, huge as this guy is, he won't be intimidated by him. Powell even takes a sudden sock at Big Boy, to which Williams responds, "You're too little to make that big a mistake." And it's a pretty sound comment.

 

Anyway, it then leads to a street fight between Powell and Williams with half the town watching and some taking bets (not many putting their money on Powell). It's one of those surreal, suspension-of-disbelief scenes for the viewer, not so much over whether Powell could actually put up a good fight against Williams, but over whether he could survive the first punch (along with just about anyone else Big Boy might hit, as well, truth be told).

 

Well, Powell will eventually emerge triumphant in this contest, with Big Boy lying unconscious on the ground. Sorry, not for a moment can any viewer seriously think that this would really be the case.

 

But I must give the makers of this fight scene credit. It's a surprisingly excitingly staged affair, what with Powell, Big Boy and, in the long shots, their doubles all going at it pretty hard. It's a quite beautifully edited sequence, and the vigour of it (plus the fact that Powell does appear to take a real battering) almost made me buy it.

 

Immediately afterward Powell, looking more than a bit wobbly and decidedly bruised, retires to his room where he konks out in his bed and looks like he's ready to sleep for a year. A touch of post-war reality to that moment, at least. Of course, the next morning the bruises have disappeared and he appears to have only a cut on his forehead, looking pretty fresh for a guy who, in reality, would have just had a near-death experience. But for the townspeople who saw the fight, the point has been proven - Powell's character is no pushover.

 

The movies are filled with fist fights like this, of course, in which the viewer tries to believe what he just saw - that a "hero" really could beat up on someone larger than a barn. In the case of Stage West, at least, even if logic tells you that Dick Powell wouldn't stand a chance against Big Boy Williams, the filmmakers at least made the fight a fairly brutal one. Heck, after staging this fight sequence, I wouldn't be surprised if Powell really did have to lie down and sleep it off for a year.

 

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See that bandaged hand on Powell? The film's acknowlegement of a momento from Big Boy's very hard head.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

I will undoubtedly get blasted by a few Edward G. Robinson fans for saying this, but I rather suspect that of the three actors this thread celebrates, Eddie G. may have a tendency to come in last in popularity polls (assuming, of course, the necessary to even have such arbitrary things).

 

The reason for this is that Robinson was the only one of the three to have his career adversely affected by political winds, to the effect that the quality of the films in which he appeared seriously eroded after the '40s. At the same time, while Bogart and Cagney both remained the stars of their productions until the death of one and retirement of the other, Eddie G. had become a character actor in supporting roles of, for the most part, films of minor importance.

 

This, of course, takes nothing about from any assessment of Robinson's skill or honesty as an actor for he remained a great professional to his very last role (in which he gave a touching performance). Having said that, I know that a number of posters on this thread clearly love Robinson so they will undoubtedly dismiss what I just wrote as so much hogwash. That's only to be expected.

 

Bottom line, though, great as Robinson was as an actor, the overall quality of his films is really not in the same league as the other two actors (even in his prime years). Eddie never really had a Casablanca or White Heat as a great star vehicle for him, films that continue to enjoy an enduring cult status. That doesn't help Robinson's legacy.

 

Bogart moodily drinking by himself in Rick's cafe after closing hours, bantering with a sexy Lauren Bacall ("You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?"), or as a paranoid gold prospector muttering "Nobody gets the best of Fred C. Dobbs." Cagney standing on the top of a gas tank screaming "Made it, Ma. Top of the world, " walking that last mile to the electric chair with a priest friend beside him pleading with him to act cowardly, or dancing across the stage as a vaudevillian show stopper named Cohan. These are indelible screen images.

 

Robinson has at least one, I feel. "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" as his gangster character lies dying on the ground. This, of course, was in the film that made him a star, at the very beginning of his career.

 

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I only wish, though, fine actor that he was, Eddie G. had later had as many more iconic moments on screen as those enjoyed by Cagney and Bogart.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

The tragedy of Robinson, as stated earlier in the thread, is that his time as a major player on the Hollywood scene ended with Key Largo in 1948.

 

Here's that same link again, for those who didn't have the chance to use it before, on an article about Eddie G. and HUAC, and the career price that he was forced to pay for his political activism.

 

http://tfm.usc.edu/autumn-2011/little-caesar-and-the-mccarthyist-mob

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

You're right, Arturo. When I listed George Raft's few good films, I definitely should have included They Drive By Night. I think that truck driving melodrama was, without question, the highlight of his Warners contract period. A first rate production in every sense, with brisk direction by Raoul Walsh and a wonderful cast delivering some of the smartest wise acres dialogue of the period. Raft is quite good in the lead of the film, as well.

 

Manpower can be compared to this film, inasmuch as it is also an illustration of Warners' ability to make working man dramas like no other studio. As an entertainment, however, I think that Manpower, while not at all a bad film, still falls far short of the same level of excellence achieved by They Drive By Night.

 

 

They Drive By Night. An absolutely first rate illustration of Warners' ability to turn working man melodrama into high entertainment. Blessed with Raoul Walsh's fast moving direction, a superior cast and at times sparkling dialogue.

 

Some of the best of the latter occurs towards the film's opening set in a roadside cafe, with waitress Ann Sheridan's bantering give-and-take with various trucker drivers.

 

And some of that very clever dialogue is, even in those code times, a bit risque. One of the truckers, in looking Sheridan over, refers to her "classy chassis."

 

"Who do you think you're kidding," she barks back at the wise guy, "You couldn't even afford the headlights!"

 

The film, unfortunately, veers off into murder melodrama in its second half, that portion of the story a partial remake of a Paul Muni film (and a pretty good one), Bordertown. Even then, however, it's still fun. There are few moments in the movies quite so deliciously over-the-top as when an hysterically laughing Ida Lupino starts yelling in a courtroom, "The doors made me do it."

 

Bogart has a supporting role as Raft's brother in one of the actor's best films from his pre-stardom period.

 

 

A promotional cast shot for the film. So many smiling happy faces! Even George Raft! Studios seemed to love to have shots like this for many of their movies, no matter what the film's subject matter, it appears. I usually associate this kind of cast imagery with comedies, like MGM's Libelled Lady (the very introduction of the film itself). Here, however, a truck driving melodrama gets the same treatment.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

The Sensitive Side of Bogart

 

 

Bogie with pal Peter Lorre and Lorre's daughter, Catherine. Both men were settling into fatherhood by the time this photo was taken in the '50s. Lorre had a strong loyalty to Bogart, calling him his closest friend in Hollywood.

 

 

Bogart with his own daughter, Leslie.

[Behind the Scenes]

 

My, what a yummy pastry somebody has. The set of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Frederic March, director Rouben Mamoulian and Miriam Hopkins.

 

 

A cast pose for Freaks. Notice that Olga Baclanova, in the centre with director Todd Browning to her left, is in her Chicken Woman makeup.

 

 

Mystery of the Wax Museum, with Lionel Atwill and director Michael Curtiz

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

Thanks, finance, and I'll take your word for it. But Cagney was born in the Lower East Side.

 

The opening paragraph of his autobiography:

 

Being born at the turn of this century in New York City had its hazards. The infant mortality then, particularly in the Lower East Side, was high - roughly two and a half times today's. For a time there it looked like I was going to be one of those statistics.

 

Cagney was born near Avenue D and Eighth Street in the Lower East Side on July 17, 1899. When he was two his family moved to 429 East Seventy-ninth Street, and after that, it was 166 East Ninety-sixth Street.

 

New Yawkers reading this will have a far better idea than this Canadian as to where those street locations are.

 

 

Baby Face - talk about attitude; he even had it then. Compare this image of Cagney to that poster of him from 13 Rue Madeleine - same expression.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

Local Boy Returns Home

 

 

New York City - Lower East Side, 1947

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

While it's true that Raft maintained gangland associates (once, reputedly, using them to help avoid an "accident" from befalling James Cagney), it's also true, of course, that Cagney had a New York street background as a young boy where he saw a lot of hoods. He looked down upon them pretty well as parasites, however.

 

That shared street background gave Cagney and Raft an off screen rapport with one another, and Cagney spoke very highly about Raft in his autobiography.

 

 

Raft with pal Benjamin Bugsy Siegel. You didn't want to get on Siegel's bad side. Unfortunately for Siegel, he did precisely that with fellow hoods.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

 

Raft was a limited actor but he still had a dapper screen presence for which none of the three thread actors were known. Yes, they were all decidedly better actors but there was never a moment in which I thought of Raft as not being the genuine article as a tough guy on screen. The fact that Raft's career has so many programmers didn't help, though the actor was, at times, his own worst enemy by demonstrating notoriously poor script judgment. It's my understanding that the New York street tough guy was not particularly literate, which may have had something to do with it.

 

And, yes, Raft does have a touch of screen immortality, by flipping that coin in Scarface, and for his personification of a cold blooded gang boss in Billy Wilder's comic masterpiece, Some Like It Hot. There, Raft actually did appear in a couple of good films, after all.

 

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[Actors of classic studio era. vs. Modern Actors - A thought and a question.]

Andy, you truly do hate action films. Those are four of the weakest films Flynn made for Warners and one of them is a Perry Mason film in which he's barely even in it.

 

You actually have Cry Wolf? That's Errol in a George Brent part that even George Brent wouldn't have wanted to do. And, unfortunately, Errol plays it with all of the excitement that George Brent would have brought to the part.

 

The other two are comedies and Flynn was never given particularly good material when he made a comedy. I must say, though, that Flynn himself is quite good in one of them, Four's a Crowd, as a conniver. Roz Russell is good, in a role that quite similar to her His Gril Friday bit from two years later.

 

I hope that TCM replays Gentleman Jim again soon (and they do play it). Any ten minutes of that film has more entertainment value than your four films combined.

[Actors of classic studio era. vs. Modern Actors - A thought and a question.]

Well, Andy, I can see that based upon your antipathy towards action films, you never will be a Flynn fan.

 

Gentleman Jim is different from the rest, however, and it happens to have my personal favourite performance of the actor, a role that he truly fits like a glove and one that he always looked back upon with affection. It's a turn-of-the-century portrait of boxing at a time when it was an outlawed sport, with Flynn as a boxing dandy known for his fast footwork at a time when most pugilists were brawling half-wrestling behemoths.

 

I recommend the film (mind you, I would have recommended Robin Hood, too, keep that in mind). One of the main charms of this Raoul Walsh film, however, is an abundance of good natured humour, much of it sterotypical admittedly, about fighting Irishmen. An on going joke in the film is that Flynn and his brothers can never be together for long before they have to settle their differences in the barn. The cry then goes out to the neighbourhood "The Corbetts are at it again" and all come charging to see the fight.

 

But the film boasts two very well choreographed fights, both of which had Flynn participating without doubles because he believed in this film. One of them is set on a barge by a dockside. Flynn and his huge opponent keep knocking each other down, Flynn at one point, in a genuinely rousing, half-hilarious scene, actually getting knocked through the ropes and into the water.

 

The film also has a great performance by Ward Bond as heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan. Bond plays him like a heavy drinking braggard always boasting "I can lick any man in the world." "All except one, Mr. Sullivan," Flynn as Corbett warns him, "All except one." That sets things up for the final confrontation between the two in the ring, and it's a corker of a fight. (Truth is, the earlier fight on the barge remains my favourite sequence in the film).

 

I love Gentleman Jim as a good natured exercise in fictional biographies with great turn-of-the-century sets and an engaging sense of humour. As directed by Walsh, this film, in true Warners style, never stops moving. It flows effortlessly, with Flynn at the centre of the action. Flynn is really at his cocky best here, and displays in abundance his ability to play a scene with a sure light hearted touch that was a distinguishing tradmark of the actor during his prime years as a star. That light heartedness would disappear from the actor's later screen appearances, (take a look, again, at Cry Wolf), but in Gentleman Jim he was at his peak as a charismatic force on the screen.

 

Hey, can you tell I'm a Flynn fan?

 

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[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

James, that talk about Eddie G. having difficulty not closing his eyes when he fired a prop gun rings some kind of bell in the distant recesses of my mind, as well.

 

Here's a shot of a 25-year-old Robinson when he served in the U.S. Navy in 1918. I don't know if he saw any action, but, if he did, I guess his eyes were closed.

 

 

Of course, Bogart was in the navy, as well. One of the stories of how the future actor acquired his lisp is from a piece of enemy shrapnel that damaged his lip when on a vessel, the USS Leviathon. A pretty neat trick, since sailor Bogart reported to duty on the ship more than two weeks after the war had ended. In any event, whatever the cause the damaged lip, a future part of the actor's mythology, it did occur during his navy stint.

 

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[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

Awright, ya mugs, what is this, some kind of jokers convention?

 

 

Enough already, ya clowns!

 

Talk back to me and I'll pop you like a pimple, I'll feed ya to the fishes, I'll tear your guts out and do things to you that would make a moose blush!

 

This thread is about ME! Ya get that, mug?

 

Okay, maybe about those Cagney and Bogart bums too. But primarily ME! So get back on topic.

 

Remember, I know where ya live, so give me any lip and you'll get some of what I hand out below

 

[Actors of classic studio era. vs. Modern Actors - A thought and a question.]

Andy, since I am not a fan of either the Rambo films or those of muscleman Arnold, I regard it as a bit of a backhanded compliment to compare ol' Errol's popularity to their's. (Then, again, maybe you do too). Flynn clearly possessed an elegance in his athletic screen endeavours that those other two gentlemen clearly lack, in my opinion. Flynn, I believe, would have been an ideal James Bond - charming, sexy, convincing in the action scenes - he had it all for that part.

 

As for your question, how many good non-swashbucklers did he make my answer would be to name a few. Then, again, my idea of good films may not be the same as yours. By the way, since you make no bones about despising swashbucklers, does that even extend to The Adventures of Robin Hood, probably one of the most revered adventure movies ever made?

 

As for good Flynn non-swashbucklers I would classify the following as such - Dawn Patrol, Dodge City, They Died with Their Boots On, Gentleman Jim, Edge of Darkness, Objective Burma, Silver River, among them. I omitted Charge of the Light Brigade, a costume film of great quality, I feel, but you may think it close to being a swashbuckler. No, Flynn is primarily remembered for his roles in films of other eras and when he did get placed in a film with a more modern setting (such as Cry Wolf, which you mentioned) the material was usually not very good.

 

But, as always, Flynn's personality and charisma have tended to blind many people to the fact that he was, I believe, a quite naturalistic actor of the low key type - an understated performer in the same sense as a Colman, for example. At his best, he was a good actor who, when cast in the right role (General Custer, for example, or Don Juan or Robin Hood or Gentleman Jim), was a perfect amalgamation of actor and part, and a difficult performer, I feel, for others to match.

 

I don't think that the flair and charisma and style needed for an actor in a swashbuckler part has been all that easy to come by - and no one has personalified it better than Flynn. As I said earlier, I think he was quite unique.

 

Okay, I'm done, end of my Flynn was great blast.

[Actors of classic studio era. vs. Modern Actors - A thought and a question.]

*Andy wrote: OTOH many a current or recent Hollywood star could step into one of Errol Flynn's "swashbuckling" roles and do just as well as he did. Aplogies to Flynn fans out there, but his talent lay in his looks and his athleticism, not in his ability to portray character. You could find replacements for Errol Flynn types today in the gyms of every American city, complete with kinky backstory to keep the gossipmongers in thrall.*

 

Andy, I have to take great exception to your rather flippant dismissal of Errol Flynn's acting talent. For starters, I've seen your comments in the past that you pretty well hate swashbucklers and costume epics. Therefore, it may be that if the genre in which Flynn specialized is not one of your favourites, you may not be quite as tolerant on picking up on the at times wonderfully low key subtlety of the actor's work.

 

There's a reason why Flynn remains the most famous of all movies swashbucklers, and it's because he was so much more than just a good looking guy who knew how to handle a sword on screen. He was an actor who had the wonderful facility to deliver sometimes awkward and rather ripe dialogue with complete conviction and without a hint of self consciousness.

 

When, for example, in the film that made him a star, Captain Blood, Flynn at one points shouts out, words to the effect, "Follow me my hardies, aloft! Watch the wind fill those sails with the breeze that's going to carry us all to freedom," he manages, by the full throated enthusiasm of his delivery and his utter sincerity to carry members of the audience along with him on this fantasy adventure ride.

 

Now, I admit, since you said that you hate swashbucklerrs, maybe you don't get carried along. But obviously a lot of audiences did then,and still do today (Flynn has no fewer than FOUR box sets of DVDs for sale, how many other stars of the studio system days have that?).

 

Flynn also, of course, had an evident sense of humour, which was a natural reflection of the man himself, that also helped to engage the audience. Flynn is also, for the most part, a fairly subtle, understated actor. No one will ever call him a ham. I think that his understated approach helps to further carry an audience along on some of those, shall we say, at times outragious adventures of his.

 

Flynn also brought, for those who care to observe it, some subtle variations in his swashbuckling characterizations. They are not all the same, at all. Captain Blood is largely a bitter person out for revenge. Flynn is exuberant as laughing Robin Hood, a true extrovert. In contrast to that look at his understated gentlemanly portrait in The Sea Hawk, playing an emotionally reserved swshbuckler who still has the respect of his men who follow him. And finally, Flynn was allowed to demonstate some supeb delivery of clever tongue-in-cheek dialogue when he played Don Juan. This is a character who, unlike brimming with virtue Robin Hood, is a world weary cynic, and Flynn brings an intriguing and completely convincing sophistication and world weariness to the part that may be a reflection of the actor, it's true, but helps to make it one of the most intriguing of all movie swashbuckling performances, in my opinion, by any actor.

 

Finally, Errol Flynn remains the single most versatile of all action heroes of the studio system days. There was NO OTHER actor on the screen then who was so convincing in not only cotume films, but also westerns (They Died With Their Boots On, a totally convincing characterization as he ages from eager young cadet to self sacrificing doomed general) and war dramas. Flynn was the only non American born actor who was a popular box office star in the US in westerns.

 

Errol Flynn was and still is a completely unique personality/star/actor, constantly underrated as a performer, totally unjustifiably, in my opinion. And, no, I know of no other actor today who could do as well in the kind of roles that he played then as he did (just as, in turn, there were no other actors in Flynn's own day who were his equal in those kind of costume roles either, with apologies to Ty Power and Doug Fairbanks Jr. fans).

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

James, it's my understanding that Ann Sheridan refused a principal role in Hollywood Canteen because she thought that the whole idea of a famous Hollywood star (such as herself) falling in love with a common soldier (strictly fantasy stuff for all men in uniform, of course) was insulting to those same servicemen because it was so totally divorced from reality. Therefore, Joan Leslie played the role.

 

I don't know why Errol Flynn didn't appear in the production, or Bogart, for that matter. Cagney and Robinson, of course, were no longer with the studio.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

thisgirlfriday, welcome to the boards and thanks very much for your contribution to this thread.

 

I think that John Garfield was a great talent, a highly sensitive "tough guy" actor with a large streak of on screen vulnerability, who was, unfortunately, for the most part, ill served by Warner Brothers. He was given a lot of tired script material, none of the often first rate stuff accorded to Bogart and Cagney in their primes. Therefore, his career, unfortunately, has fewer films of real distinction, which has to play a role in the fact that he is not as well remembered today as the three actors this thread is about.

 

It wasn't until Garfield was loaned to MGM for The Postman Always Rings Twice, or, after his Warners contract expired, went independent with productions like Body and Soul and Force of Evil that he began to have the opportunity to shine with some of his strongest work as an actor. He returned to Warners for a final time in 1950, delivering, in my opinion, a shatteringly honest and poignant portrayal in The Breaking Point, a remake of To Have and Have Not, though far closer to the Hemingway source material than had been the Bogart film.

 

To me, The Breaking Point may well have the performance of Garfield's career, proof that he was maturing as an actor and capable of characterizations of even greater depth than before. By then, however, it was too late for him. HUAC and the political winds in Washington would result in his being blacklisted, appearing in just one more film, before his early death from a heart attack. Garfield is truly a tragic figure.

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

*As they've often said, dying can be a great career move, and Bogart's untimely death contributed to the rebirth of interest in him*

 

Could be . . .

 

 

 

 

These four dead movie icons will always be teamed together as long as there are tacky looking portraits that can make a buck off them

[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

*MissW wrote:*

 

*Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. Robinson did not enjoy nearly the fame and "re-birth" of their screen legends the way Bogart did. They were equally great actors, and made many movies that were as good as many of Bogart's. Yet it was only Humphrey Bogart whose name experienced this renaissance of interest in young film lovers.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*I don't really know why this should be, what there was about Bogart specifically that struck such a chord with movie lovers in the 60s and 70s. But the Bogart legend continues to this day, in a way the other two great actors' legends have not.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*This is partly why I am so surprised that, at least here on this TCM forum, Bogart seems to be the least popular of the three.*

 

I'm not so certain that Bogart is the least popular of the three on this thread but, certainly, there seems to be more enthusiasm about Cagney, I feel, than the other two.

 

That resurgence in popularity that Bogart enjoyed with college kids in the '60s was shared by a few others at the time, as well, it seems to me, though they seem to have been comic icons instead - W. C. Fields, Mae West, the Marx Brothers (with their anarchy humour). I'm not certain that younger viewers today care much about Fields or West - I rather suspect that their resurgence is now past.

 

But not so much Bogart, though I don't know if his name has quite as much cache today as it did from the '60s through to, at least, the '90s or early part of this century. As for why Bogart had a popularity that eclipsed that of Robinson and Cagney, I guess it all comes down to his super cool image from the Casablanca-To Have and Have Not period of his '40s career.

 

That laid back acting style (which, in itself, was also associated with "coolness" as opposed to the high voltage acting that could distinguish Cagney much of the time), combined with his characters' world weary cynicism, which seemed to very much be a reflection of Bogie himself, had a lot to do with it, I think. Kids in the '60s were in revolt against a lot of the accepted norms of society, of course, and Bogart's leeriness of "this crazy mixed up world," to which Rick referred in Casablanca, made that character and the actor playing him seem like a kindred soul.

 

However, it's primarily that "cool" Bogart image that became popular, I believe. Those attempts to occasionally break away from that stereotypical mold, so important to Bogart the actor, in films like Caine Mutiny or Treasure of the Sierra Madre, didn't appear to get the same kind of celebration, it seems to me, from the later generation that rediscovered him and helped create a cult following. It was, above all, Rick in Casablanca who became the centrepiece of the Bogart cult's fascination with the actor (though, obviously, he played variations on that same character in other films, as well, and they, too, added to that legend).

 

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[Bogart Vs. Cagney Vs. Robinson]

Andy, we're obviously in agreement that Muni's best work was his earlier work. The one Muni biography that I do enjoy, however, is Juarez. Not because of Muni - his (I hope I'm not too politically incorrect here) wooden Indian performance is perhaps the least intersting aspect of the film. But the film has a great supporting cast, with outstanding work, I feel, by Claude Rains as Napoleon III. Bette Davis, largely wasted in the film, as Empress Carlotta, still has a great scene in which her character goes mad. Interestingly, the film actually turns Juarez' political opponent, the appointed dictator Maximillian, into the flawed but noble hero of the production, in a quite sympathetic portrait of him. Finally, the film has a great musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.