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Bogart movies you didn't like?


Humphrey Bogart is one of the very small handful of actors whose presence makes pretty much any film worth a look and of the thirty or so of his movies which I have seen the majority are, at the very least, pleasant diversions - and a handful are, of course, all-time classics. A great actor and a GREAT star.

However nobody is fallible. I have to say that I found Tokyo Joe thoroughly mediocre - within moments of its ending I had forgotten it and not even the great Bogie could do much to elevate it.

I would much rather sit through that again, however, than The Barefoot Contessa, which I found to be complete nonsense, a glossy but dreary soap opera melodrama with a fine cast utterly wasted.

Which Bogart films did NOT live up to expectations for his other fans?

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Sabrina

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I like "Sabrina", and Bogart is good in it, but a well-weathered fifty-something guy like him courting a very youthful early-twenties girl like Audrey Hepburn is a stretch, even for my well-developed suspension of disbelief skills. It works, though, because their age and maturity chasm is openly addressed in the movie.

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