Beat the Devil (1953)
Beat the Devil (1953)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Humphrey Bogart
Billy Dannreuther
Jennifer Jones
Gwendolen Chelm
Gina Lollobrigida
Maria Dannreuther
Robert Morley
Peterson
Peter Lorre
Julius O'Hara
Edward Underdown
Harry Chelm
Ivor Barnard
Maj. Jack Ross
Marco Tulli
Ravello
Anthony Veiller
Writer
Peter Viertel
Writer
Bernard Lee
Insp. Jack Clayton
Mario Perrone
Purser on SS Nyanga
Giulio Donnini
Administrator
John Huston
Director
Saro Urzì
Captain of SS Nyanga
Claud Cockburn
Writer
Juan de Landa
Hispano-Suiza Driver
Truman Capote
Writer
Aldo Silvani
Charles
Mimmo Poli
Barman (uncredited)
Peter Sellers
Billy Dannreuther (voice) (uncredited)
Franco Mannino
Composer
Manuel Serrano
Ahmed (uncredited)
Oswald Morris
Cinematographer
Freddie Francis
Camera Operator
Ralph Kemplen
Editor
Angelo Rizzoli
Producer
John Woolf
Producer
Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
Kevin McClory
Boom Operator
Harry White
Other
Jack Clayton
Producer / Associate Producer
Reg Johnson
Special Effects
Lambert Williamson
Music Director
Harriet Medin
Dialect Coach
James H. Ware
Location Manager
Bryan Langley
Visual Effects
Angela Allen
Continuity
John Arnold
Assistant Director
John Hoesli
Assistant Art Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 26, 1953
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Content RatingNR
Budget$1,000,000
Genres
Wiki.
Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida, in her American debut, and featuring Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon the 1951 novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn writing under the pseudonym James Helvick. Huston made the film as a sort of loose parody of the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, which Huston directed and in which Bogart and Lorre appeared. Capote said, "John [Huston] and I decided to kid the story, to treat it as a parody. Instead of another Maltese Falcon, we turned it into a... [spoof] on this type of film."The script, written on a day-to-day basis as the film was shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to claim land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard a tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.