Humphrey Bogart

Hi.

Man, you put a cowboy hat on Humphrey Bogart and he's just unrecognizable.

Yeah, we should start there.

This is a remake, I mean, like literally a remake of High Sierra from 1940 with Humphrey Bogart, also directed by Ronald Walsh.

So, hello, he did it the same thing again.

And there will be a third remake, or a second remake, I should say, called I Died a Thousand Times in 1956, starring neither Humphrey Bogart or Joel McRae.

So if you've seen High Sierra, you know the plot of this movie.

Let me walk around the circle, as I usually do, and ask Randy, what's your background with this movie?

Well, I don't think it's as good as Farewell, My Lovely by a long shot.

However, we do have Humphrey Bogart's Big Sleep, which is outstanding.

Literary success and film adaptations led to a demand for Chandler himself as a screenwriter.

He and Billy Wilder, the legendary Billy Wilder, co-wrote Double Indemnity, which if you haven't seen it, is one of the greatest film noir movies of them all, based on a novel of the same title.

Now, this is interesting because although I love the classic Raymond Chandler novels, I think Playback is my favorite.

They've never made a movie of it.

Arguably the most notable adaptation of one of his novels is Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep in 1946 with, of course, Humphrey Bogart as Phil Marlowe.

William Faulkner, the legendary William Faulkner, and a woman by the name of Lee Brackett were the co-writers of the screenplay.

up there it's a mud city that collapsed in 1927 and right here is the mosque that's about 30 50 feet from my head you can see there's some tourists down in there but this whole thing is a ruin but it is a beautiful ruin and people still live in it this guest house is in it that guest house that thing with the tree on top that is a guest house with three gardens in it And we actually had a movie night here the other night.

We played Humphrey Bogart's Sahara.

This is our fire pit where they grill goats or whatever it is.

And I'll just give you a view, especially if the kids come walking by.

But I have very little draw.

that and the Maltese Falcon is incredible that is like Humphrey Bogart just fantastic filmmaking

It is.

They are showing that, The Guardian, in December, which is why it came to mind.

This is one of the episodes that really... precedes the whole thing about computers and books.

Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law, one of the great character actors of our time, was in many Bogart films, but now also was in Star Trek.

So I think that this is a great, great character story.

It's not a bottle episode quite, but it is a really, really wonderful story with, again, showing Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, great moments for all of them, showing how chess can show when a computer is fucked up, which is really important.

But Casablanca, 1942.

Bogart, Bergman.

Come on, Ingrid Bergman, Timeless Dialogue.

A movie from an era when actors didn't need special effects.

You have to pick it up and collect it as you go.

If you take that Doom style of first-person shooter, mix in with the story narrative style or just like vibe of Bioshock, where you have a narrative that plays out through you finding tapes and newspapers and talking to people and getting the story as you explore and do things like that mixed in with the first fast-paced first-person shooter stuff it's awesome you throw on top of that a detective noir 1930s storyline where you're a Humphrey Bogart style private detective, something like that, Casablanca, that sort of shit.

And then you put it into a visual style of Steamboat Willie or Mickey, whatever it was

called.