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Beat the Devil

1953

John Huston

Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley ...

6.0

2,179

Adventure. Comedy The last of five joint efforts between director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart, Beat The Devil has become a cinema classic. Truman Capote´s witty script sends Bogart into a complex scheme to gain control of a stretch of East African land rich in uranium. On the way there, their boat breaks down, leaving Bogart, his wife (Gina Lollobrigida) and a quartet of international criminals stranded in Italy. They meet a seemingly proper British ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie has above all effortless charm. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (sobre 4)"	POS
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"'Beat the Devil' evinces the free-wheeling spontaneity of a film constructed on the fly."	POS
United States	J. Hoberman The New York Times	"A film whose supposed shortcomings are actually its appealing qualities"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"The splendid cast ensures that the jokes play and the romance works (...) This quirky one-off has achieved something of a cult status, and is well worth catching up with (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Empire	"A well played movie with a Truman Capote script that manages to be both dauntingly intellectual and charmingly daffy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Fans and detractors of 'Beat the Devil' can probably agree: Huston's movie was more fun to make than it was to watch"	NEU

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