This outstanding single off-net (ABC) hour special must go into television's doc diary as one of the finest, best-handled of all. Touching the career of filmdom's outstanding tough guy, but with dignity, realism and startling truths, it is now available for the first time.
Critique comments in on-camera cameo appearances by Ida Lupino, George Raft, Ingrid Bergman, producers/directors Joseph L. Manckiewicz and Stanley Kramer, Joan Blondell and others are interlaced with numerous clips from Humphrey Bogart's 27-year screen career. They lay it on the line! No punches pulled! Nelson Riddle composed and conducted the score, and Joseph Campanella (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, National Geographic and one of the stars of The Bold Ones) is the host-narrator. Add to this the continuing and growing cult of Bogart-mania fans (especially young people!) and this "BOGART" special will prove to be an hour of special entertainment.
Scenes with loads of original track dialogue and effects, carefully placed voice-over narration by Campanella, are included from: CASABLANCA, THE BIG SLEEP, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, THE PETRIFIED FOREST, DEAD END, TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, BAREFOOT CONTESSA, MALTESE FALCON, THE AFRICAN QUEEN, KEY LARGO, CAINE MUTINY, ACROSS THE PACIFIC and others. All time screen favorites are included like: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Claude Rains, Lauren Bacall, Paul Henreid, Joel McCrea, Ingrid Bergman, Claire Trevor, Jose Ferrer and many others from yesterday and today's cinema world.
Read for yourself the press reaction after the one and only prime-time network airing:
"An
exciting class in Bogey-art"
(Chicago Sun-Times).
"Succeeded in bringing to the small screen the
king-sized Bogart. A savvy pro documentary"
(Daily Variety).
"Effective. Conveyed the essential
appeal of Bogart"
(New York Times).
"A rewarding journey into the past"
(Pittsburg Post
Gazette).
"Absorbing, arresting, a sterling example of action and reaction that never flagged in
interest" (Boston Globe).
"A moving tribute, done in the best possible way. Bogart's
indestructible and this very good special proved it"
(Memphis Commercial Appeal).
"Candor and objectivity
rather than the customary fan magazine approach made ABC's hour-long documentary worth
watching"
(Philadelphia Bulletin).
"Capitalized on the Bogart phenomenon to the hilt. A
fascinating exercise in nostalgia"
(Variety).
"An outstanding documentary. Vivid. To be highly
commended. The hour passed as a minute" (Phoenix Gazette).
In BOGART your audience sees and hears Stanley Kramer call him a "sack of mush, but with a taste of honey behind that tough-guy facade" . . . Ingrid Bergman admitting that "under that toughness and roughness, Bogart had a tender heart" . . . George Raft nailing Bogart right on the spot, discovering he wore lifts on his shoes to appear taller than Raft . . . Joan Blondell revealing the bloody battles between Bogey and his third wife aboard Sluggy, their cabin cruiser Manckiewicz declares Bogart a devious man and more! Much more!
Marshall Flauun wrote, produced and directed BOGART, with Sherman Grinberg as executive producer.
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