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Beat the Devil (1953)
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley
6.4
68%Runtime95 min
RatingPG
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A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
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Beat the Devil, the 1953 adventure comedy directed by John Huston, offers a delightfully offbeat and humorous take on the classic caper film. With a standout cast led by Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida, the film blends sharp wit and quirky characters to create a unique cinematic experience that will particularly appeal to fans of Huston's distinctive directorial style.
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Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida in her American debut. Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon the 1951 novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn writing under the pseudonym James Helvick. Huston intended the film as a sort of loose parody of his 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, which also starred Bogart. Capote said, "John [Huston] and I decided to kid the story, to treat it as a parody. Instead of another Maltese Falcon, we turned it into a... [spoof] on this type of film."
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