Beat the Devil (1953)
Director John Huston on top form with a crook film with considerable comedy attachments. Filmed largely on location in Italy, it's the story of an assorted group of characters, all more or less immoral, who are all unscrupulously after the ownership of uranium-bearing land in Africa, and all prepared to slit anybody else's throat to get it! Brilliant direction, polished production and neat performances from Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Jennifer Jones. 1
Books with substantial mentioning of Beat the Devil
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David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008 |
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David Sterritt and John Anderson (eds.) The B list, The National Society of Film Critics on the low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks, and cult classics we love Cambridge, MA, 2008 |
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| John McCarty The Films of John Huston Secaucus, New Jersey, 1987 |
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W. Franklyn Moshier The Films of Jennifer Jones San Francisco, 1978 |
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| Gerald Pratley The Cinema of John Huston South Brunswick and New York - London, 1977 |
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Clifford McCarty Bogey, The Films of Humphrey Bogart New York, NY, 1965 |
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Books with an entry on Beat the Devil
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Michael F. Keaney Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959 Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003 |
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Alan G. Fetrow Feature Films, 1950 - 1959, a United States Filmography Jefferson, NC, 1999 |
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Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book, The sound era Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969 |
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