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title: "Beat the Devil (The Film Detective Restored Version) [Blu-ray]"
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# Beat the Devil (The Film Detective Restored Version) [Blu-ray]

**Brand:** humphrey bogart, jennifer jonesjohn huston
**Price:** € 225.03
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Beat the Devil (The Film Detective Restored Version) [Blu-ray]

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## Customer Reviews

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    Loads of fun, but this is a terrible print!
  

*by E***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 28, 2022*

While I have not seen many of John Huston's films, THE DEAD is a favorite and BEAT THE DEVIL has long been on my list. If interested, consult Roger Ebert's review; several of the other Customer Reviews here offer much in the way of background. I will only second how much I enjoyed the character actors and Jennifer Jones is a brilliant ham. This is being written as a warning: Amazon is not exactly The Criterion Collection. To the company's credit, Prime Video offers a fair number of movies that either predate 1970 or were made outside of Hollywood. However, the assumption is that we watch mostly for plot and acting, and not the image on the screen. There are clear signs in the blurred and grainy grays and whites that a crisp, restored print is worth seeking out. (I am not sure one is available.)

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    Neither film noir nor satire of film noir this cudda been a contender for the first dramedy
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2015*

Bottom line 1st: Beat the Devil is an occasionally comic movie about would be con artists and their women and what we are told upfront will be a thwarted crime. Despite a stellar cast the direction of John Houston and the writing of Truman Capote the bumbling is not comic enough and the drama is not compelling enough. There are some very fine individual moments which spread out farther between as the movie drags on. Not a bad movie but what a lot of talent to achieve so little. Good for a family movie night or a film buffs date night but maybe not something you will see over and over.><><><><><><><><><><><><Because there is been some discussion of technical problems with certain versions of this DVD is identified as the Collector's Edition from Eco Bridge Home Entertainment. Sound quality was for me excellent. For a 1953 film I found the transfer slightly washed but I am willing to bet my viewing experience on this DVD was superior to what most people saw in the movie houses almost 65 years ago.There are a number of lovely moments In Beat the Devil. Gina Lollobrigida walks into a room wearing an otherwise modest but on her teasing dress and announces "tea for two"; earning the single biggest laugh in the movie. After that her character is mostly bland and could have been portrayed by any woman with an authentic Italian accent.The mostly invisible Peter Lorre receives some clever jabs based on the fact that he plays an escaped Nazi with the assumed name of O'Hara while living in South America. He will give us a lovely comic turn while delivering a homily to Humphrey Bogart. O'Hara, an underling henchman has been sent to a advise the Bogart character that it is important for people to avoid appearing suspicious even as Lorre is acting very suspicious. His character then mostly disappears from the movie having little more to contribute.Humphrey Bogart plays the most necessary man for the execution of the the crime but otherwise his character is a bland version of Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca.Robert Morley nearly makes this his movie. While he mostly portrays Robert Morley; his ability to be an overbearing but hollow and ineffectual bully nearly has him dominating the screen as he dominates his criminal conspiracy without ever impressing Humphrey Bogart.The pleasant surprise in this movie is Jennifer Jones. She sparkles and crackles and is very much the center of her every scene. It is given to her to leave out a trail of unnecessary and elaborate lies confusing and misdirecting virtually every other member of the cast. I'm tempted to say that her principal dialogue consists of alternate plot lines considered by Truman Capote and instead handed to her and brilliantly handled by her.The plot line is as neat a McGuffin as Hitchcock could have desired. But for all of its complexities and individual bright moments there is too much dead time in this movie with almost all of it piling up to stretch out the end. What we now know as the, comedy drama or dramedy would not be developed for at least 25 or 35 years. In its more modern formula there is a better sense of timing and of the mix of gag lines and danger. In 1953 the formula did not yet exist and so this movie has originality but it lacks balance.

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    BFI blu ray/dvd combo review
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2023*

This is coded for region b and will not play on a playstaton 5 in the u.s.otherwise its fine.review is for the bfi blu ray /dvd combo.

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