BOGART, HUMPHREY - DVD-ESSENTIAL COLLECTION (13 DISCS)

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• Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy
• Plot: 24 HUMPHREY BOGART FILMS.; ONE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION.; ; THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936); BLACK LEGION (1937); MARKED WOMAN (1937); KID GALAHAD (1937); SAN QUENTIN (1937); THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (1938); DARK VICTORY (1939); THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939); INVISIBLE STRIPES (1939); VIRGINIA CITY (1940); BROTHER ORCHID (1940); THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (1940); HIGH SIERRA (1941); THE MALTESE FALCON (1941); ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1942); ACROSS THE PACIFIC (1942); CASABLANCA (1942); ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC (1943); PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE (1944); TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944); THE BIG SLEEP (1946); DARK PASSAGE (1947); THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948); KEY LARGO (1948); ; Bogart! There was no one like him. He's been called 'the Greatest Screen Actor' by many, as well as 'the Greatest Movie Star of All Time;' there was also many a year that the Warner Brothers were able to pay their yearly mortgage because of him. Yet by any logical yardstick, it's a wonder that Humphrey DeForest Bogart, as he was christened, managed to become a movie star at all. Once upon a time, and most definitely in Bogie's era, an actor had to be - first and foremost, and with only a few exceptions - tall, dark and handsome to be granted entry behind that velvet rope into the movie pastures where bona fide leading men can roam. Think Clark Gable and Errol Flynn. Think Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, William Holden. Bogart didn't fit any such Handsome Harry profile at all. He stood 5 feet, 8 inches and possessed a somewhat craggy face with a mouth that curled awkwardly when he spoke. There was even a slight hint of a lisp. Further, that first name did him no favors, either, 'Humphrey' never being a moniker synonymous with toughness, bravado or muscles. But put them all together in the package born December, 1899, to a successful New York doctor and his wife, a famous magazine illustrator, and you had a star as big, magnetic and timeless as Hollywood has ever known. In a profession where the duration of a career has always averaged seven years, the magic of Bogart has lingered for more than seventy years, with no sign of it slowing down. If there is a single key reason above all otheres responsible for such lingering popularity, it may be the simplest of all: he has never worn out his welcome. No matter how many times one sees Casablanca or The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep or any of the 80 movies he made in his life as an actor, Bogie and his movies seem fresh each time one watches them. The lesser-known titles in his portfolio offer infinite pleasures as well. With Bogart it doesn't matter when you meet him, it's pure pleasure to be in his company whether you're continuing, or at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (Rober Osborne, TCM Primetime Host and Film Historian)
• Runtime: 8:30
• Company: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie