When Humphrey Bogart's character got a ride with the guy in the car after escaping off the back of that truck.....and the guy caught on to who he was after hearing an announcement on the radio....OH MY GOSH, it was so funny. He just slapped him around a little bit in the face, not even punches-and the guy was knocked out cold. Couldn't they have made it look a little more realistic? It looked hilarious to me.
shareI thought it was remarkably realistic -- wasn't Bogart's character some kind of white collar guy before getting sent up to Quentin? It struck me as the kind of mild beating that most ordinary people would dish out; what's surprising is that the guy he smacked around turned out to be a 2-time loser who you would think could have taken a better beating.
The guy in the car had one of the best lines in any movie of the 1940's, "There's a lotta smart guys in prison!"
shareThat whole scene was funny from the start, but it got funnier, to me, because it reminded me of the scene in "Borni In East L.A." when Cheech finds himself in a Tijuana jail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NubtpqJfs8A
At one point his head jerks backwards as though being hit. But Bogie's hand is nowhere in sight.
shareViolence in movies was not trying to be "realistic", and there is no realism today in gory scenes, they are just overly gory, or fake. Don't like someone, or don't want them interfering with you - give them a knock on the head with something heavy and they will go to sleep and wake up fine. I prefer the older movies as I get sick and tired of the obsession with violence in our society and media.
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