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Is this Bogart's worst performance?

posted 11 years ago by Xerxes_Punk
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the only Bogart movie I've seen is Casablanca .. he was great in that role.a few minutes ago ,i finished watching this movie and i think Bogart's performance was unbelievably terrible and dull!!!

I don't know if we should blame this to the director or plot,but this movie at a lot of terrible acting moment.Audrey did a good job though.It was satisfying.but Bogart was at it's worse.I'm saying this cause Bogart is considered an acting Icon.one of the best actors of all time.I was shocked during the whole movie

[–] MsELLERYqueen2 11 years ago

I love this movie and I think he was perfectly cast.

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[–] rudeboy_murray 11 years ago

His worst performance (of those I've seen, of course!) is his 'Irish' gardener in Dark Victory (1939). Terrific film with superb work by Bette Davis and Geraldine Fitzgerald, but Bogart is embarrassingly bad, I think. It's been a long time since I saw Sabrina but I remember finding him perfectly acceptable in it. I'd rank it much closer to the bottom of the pile than the top, but that's more testament to his glorious talents as an actor than any real problems with his performance here.

[–] montrossboc-1 11 years ago

Bogey wasn't bad in Dark Victory. It was that ridiculous accent they gave him.

His 'Bandito' in Virginia City was pretty bad.

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[–] jsrrtzjr10 11 years ago

Not bad acting I think. He did well. But maybe this is not his kind of movie [neither mine type of movie but I have seen worse!]. He was more toward gangster & noir films. But his acting here shows how professional actor he can be. He could do any role.

[–] SteveMoonlightAllaby 11 years ago

I don't think he was dull or terrible. He did a good job and I don't think this was his worst performance.

[–] fanaticita 10 years ago

He played his character perfectly!

[–] karnevilelp 10 years ago

I'm a huge Bogart fan, this isn't his best performance by a mile, but his worst? Nah, he was in a bunch of stinkers before his breakthrough in Petrified Forest in 1936.

[–] joeparkson 9 years ago

He did his best, but he was miscast. Not only was he 30 years older than Hepburn, he looked older. You need to have a certain self cofidence if you're going to slyly romance an inconvenient young lady from your handsomer brother who is young enough to be your son. You need to have a reason for that self confidence. Joseph Cotten, who played the role on stage was younger and better looking than Bogie, but not so handsome and dashing as to upstage Holden. Bob Cummings might have worked, as well as Glenn Ford.

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[–] ebida3 9 years ago

Bogarts hard edge made him perfect to conspire to take Hepburns affections away from Holden. However I did think that the edge although seving him well to steal away her didn't translate smoothly once he genuinely fell for Hepburn. I'm not convinced Gregory Peck or Cary Grant could have pulled off this chameleon like change in attitude either.