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Bacall on Bogart [VHS] | ![Bacall on Bogart [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21EJEDXWS7L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: David Heeley
Actors: Lauren Bacall, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Brooks, Alistair Cooke, Julius J. Epstein
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: Video
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 36195
Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301247027
UPC: 053939530148
EAN: 9786301247023
ASIN: 6301247027
Release Date: April 20, 1994
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Insightful look at Bogart's life and career December 5, 2009
calvinnme
This 90 minute documentary covers the entirety of Bogart's career, and some of his personal life, in particular his childhood and his marriage to the narrator, Lauren Bacall. It shows some clips of some rarely seen stuff from the early 30's that Bogart did including his first film, "Broadway's Like That", which was a short he did with Ruth Etting. The sound disc for that Vitaphone short is lost but the video survives, so we do get a look at Bogart's early on-stage persona as a smiling likable good guy. He played these types up until his first big break when he played Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest" in 1936. It talks all about the roles he took on reluctantly as a Warner contract player, his big break in the early 40's with "High Sierra", and is honest about the films he did that were either not that good or not that well received. Also contributing are interviews with director John Huston, Katharine Hepburn, and others who worked with Bogart through the years. One fact really struck me while watching this that really had nothing to do with Bogart himself - how George Raft's bad decision making in handling his own career really benefited Bogart. Raft was the lead in "They Drive By Night" with his name in larger print and above Bogart's in the credits. By turning down the lead in both "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon" Raft enabled Bogart to become a star while setting his own career on the road to oblivion.
If you want to know all about Bogart the actor and some about Bogart the person, this is a good documentary. For obvious reasons, Ms. Bacall does not go into Bogart's earlier marriages. Highly recommended for the film history buff.
As an aside, it is odd that this documentary was included in the VHS version of the Bogart/Bacall set but not the DVD boxed set. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find it on my copy of the Bogie and Bacall DVD Collection.
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