Humphrey Bogart

The debut feature for both Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. A lighthearted comedy that sees Tracy as the beloved ace pitcher for a prison baseball team. Tracy befriends another convict played by Bogart who’s nearing parole. Bogart’s sweet on an inmate in the neighboring woman‘s prison. Once Bogart’s released, her former partner, a scam artist, gets wind of the romance and blackmails Bogart. Just before the big game against a rival prison, Tracy escapes to help Bogart.

Bette Davis’s debut. Sidney Fox plays the titular opportunistic sister in an upstanding Ohio family who falls for a con-man played by Humphrey Bogart. Davis plays her long-suffering sister in a forgettable part. Bogie’s vulpine in his first heel role, but the predictable plot and flat performances from Fox and lead Conrad Nagel sink this effort.

George O’Brien plays a New York socialite who flies his prop-plane to Wyoming to investigate his father’s murder. After crash-landing in Sally Eilers’s shower, O’Brien runs up against Humphrey Bogart, who plays the foreman of the man O’Brien flew in to see.

Dorothy Mackaill plays a wealthy heiress who falls for an aviation engineer played by Humphrey Bogart. He’s developed a revolutionary new airplane engine but neglects his struggling company to romance her.

I watched Big City Blues because it features an early, uncredited performance from Humphrey Bogart. Given the film’s obscurity, my expectations were low.

Until a 1948 Supreme Court ruling, the five major Hollywood studios controlled the entire movie business, from production to distribution. The studios contracted performers and paid them a salary. The performers worked long days, five days a week. If a film wrapped at lunch, they ate then began another. Thus, films like Three on a Match came stock-piled with current and future stars.

O. P. Heggie plays a jury foreman who poses a key question during a woman’s murder trial for a crime of passion. When she’s found guilty and sentenced to death, the papers hold him responsible. Fast-forward the execution night. A reporter played by Henry Hull bribes Heggie’s dim-witted son-in-law to bait Heggie into an emotional reaction. Spoilers follow.

A remake of Five Star Final. Humphrey Bogart plays the manager of a struggling radio station whose boss pushes him to air a “Where are they now?” exposé on an old murder case “in the public interest.”

An outlaw (Humphrey Bogart) holds an intellectual (Leslie Howard), waitress (Bette Davis), and others hostage in a small diner in the Arizona desert.

Edward G. Robinson plays a hard-nosed detective fired during a corruption probe. He punches out his former boss, the chief of police, and joins mobster Barton MacLane’s rackets. But MacLane’s menacing lieutenant, played by Humphrey Bogart, doesn’t buy it.

Pat O’Brien plays an early aviation magnate who overcomes personal and professional setbacks to build the first trans-Pacific airline.

Miscast island melodrama has Bogart as the mustachioed, pith helmet-wearing owner of a South Seas pearl harvesting operation. Conflict arises when the natives refuse to work, and shipwrecked stranger Donald Woods falls for Bogart’s wife. Bogart’s giant octopus fight had me laughing. The ridiculous, exposition-laden finale even more so.

Humphrey Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a senior machinist and family man who loses an expected promotion to a younger co-worker from an immigrant family. Feeling angry and cheated, Frank falls in with the titular Legion, a black-robed hate group.

Pat O’Brien is miscast to comical effect in this crime melodrama featuring Humphrey Bogart in a small but significant role.

In her first film following her failed lawsuit to escape her contract, Bette Davis stars in a plot ripped from contemporary headlines.

San Quentin is a fairly routine melodrama, elevated by a quality cast.

Looking to get back at a hood (Humphrey Bogart), a boxing promoter (Edward G. Robinson) and his girlfriend (Bette Davis) discover a bellhop (Wayne Morris) with a killer right.

Humphrey Bogart plays a wrestling promoter who takes his flagging show to the Ozarks, where he arranges a match between his star and a she-hulk blacksmith. Complications arise when the would-be grapplers fall in love.

A special agent (Humphrey Bogart) tries to reform a gang of kids (The Dead End Kids) in a reform school run by a sadistic warden.

Sure, seeing Humphrey Bogart shed his terrycloth trench robe to reveal a two-piece bathing suit reminiscent of a strong-man singlet always elicits a chuckle, but I keep forgetting how getting there proves an ordeal.

Gangster Bogart muscles into the freight business, forcing trucker Brent to either work for the syndicate or not work at all.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse features Edward G. Robinson as the titular doctor, a society physician secretly investigating criminal behavior by committing jewel heists then collecting data about his physical state of being, such as blood pressure and heart rate, with plans to publish his results for the good of mankind.

Once childhood friends, a gangster (James Cagney) and a priest (Pat O’Brien) now vie for control of a gang of kids.

Kay Francis plays a doctor in danger of losing her license after her fellow doctor husband dies during a police raid where it’s discovered he’s been aiding a criminal gang led by Humphrey Bogart and getting well paid for it.

Humphrey Bogart plays Whip McCord, the leader of an outlaw gang who opens the film robbing a stagecoach. Enter James Cagney as the titular kid, another outlaw who, in turn, robs McCord and his gang.

A small-time crook (Humphrey Bogart) lands in Sing-Sing with his young accomplice (Billy Halop) who has a change of heart.

A young socialite (Bette Davis) has just six months to live after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.

The Roaring Twenties tells the story of Eddie Bartlett, played by James Cagney, who opens the film diving into a foxhole in World War I France. There he meets fellow American soldiers George Hally, played by Humphrey Bogart, and Lloyd Hart. The three strike up a friendship. Soon, the war is over and the men head home, going their separate ways.

A reporter (Wayne Morris) and a doctor uncover the secret behind a resurrected criminal with a need for blood (Humphrey Bogart).

George Raft plays a parolee eager for a fresh start, but the stigma of being an ex-con reduces him to working as a stock boy. When he sees his younger brother, played by William Holden, heading down the same path that landed him behind bars, Raft joins up with a gangster, played by Humphrey Bogart, to finance Holden’s dream of owning his own garage.

In the waning days of the Civil War, Union spy Errol Flynn travels to Virginia City, Nevada to prevent Confederate agent Randolph Scott from smuggling out millions of dollars’ worth of gold.

A hood (Humphrey Bogart) on the run from the law hides out at a boarding house, which he soon converts into a nightclub.

Brother Orchid is a pretty absurd film made workable by the charisma of its stars.

George Raft and Humphrey Bogart play brothers trying to get ahead as independent truckers. An accident forces them to go to work for Ida Lupino’s husband, whom Raft soon stands accused of murdering.

Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a career thief sprung from prison by an aging gangster for a jewel robbery at a resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The job goes south and Earle ends up on the run with a jaded dance hall girl, played by Ida Lupino. Spoilers follow.

Bogart plays a once-big circus promoter reduced to playing small rural towns. He thinks he’s caught a break when he discovers a naive store clerk with a knack for lion taming played by Albert. Bogart makes Albert a star, and the circus plays to bigger and bigger crowds, but along the way Albert falls for Bogart’s sister, which–unknown to Albert–leads Bogart to try and sabotage Albert’s act.

A private eye (Humphrey Bogart) becomes involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless statue.

Humphrey Bogart plays a Runyonesque gambler who stumbles onto a Nazi spy ring after his favorite cheesecake baker is murdered.

Humphrey Bogart plays a hood fresh off his third prison stint. He signs on for a hold-up job masterminded by a lawyer named Fleming. Fleming’s wife, played by Irene Manning, has a history with Bogart. The night of the job, she shows up at his place, confesses her love, and holds him at gunpoint to prevent him from joining the robbery.

Across The Pacific should have been a different movie.

During World War II, cynical café owner Humphrey Bogart rediscovers his idealism when former love Ingrid Bergman arrives on the arm of a famed resistance leader.

Action in the North Atlantic is an entertaining and surprisingly violent action picture with a fair amount of wartime propaganda thrown in.

Humphrey Bogart may have top billing but Sahara is an ensemble picture.

During World War II, Bogart leads a group of patriotic French convicts who escape from Devil’s Island in order to join the fight to free France from the Nazis.

In Martinique during World War II, a fishing boat captain (Humphrey Bogart) reluctantly aids the French resistance with the help of his alcoholic partner (Walter Brennan) and a sultry saloon singer (Lauren Bacall).

Humphrey Bogart plays an engineer trapped in a loveless marriage and carrying a secret torch for his wife’s sister. Seeing a way out, Bogart executes what he thinks is the perfect murder, but evidence soon mounts indicating his wife may still be alive. Spoilers follow.

Private eye Bogart, hired to investigate a simple blackmail ploy, runs into a series of murders as he falls for Bacall, his client’s somewhat-bad-girl daughter who knows more than she’s letting on.

Humphrey Bogart plays Rip Murdoch, a paratrooper investigating his buddy’s disappearance following their return to the states. The trail leads to a shady club owner named Martinelli, and a dangerous blonde played by Lizabeth Scott.

An artist (Humphrey Bogart) poisons his first wife, then tries it with his second (Barbara Stanwyck).

A San Francisco artist (Lauren Bacall) hides a fugitive (Humphrey Bogart) recovering from plastic surgery.

Two men (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) join up with an old prospector (Walter Huston) to search for gold in Mexico.

A cynical army veteran (Humphrey Bogart) and others are held prisoner in a sweltering Florida hotel by a deported gangster (Edward G. Robinson) during a hurricane.

An attorney (Humphrey Bogart) builds a sob-story defense for a young man (John Derek) accused of murder.

A former GI (Humphrey Bogart) tries to rebuild his life in postwar Tokyo.

The form-fitting flight suit is a bridge too far.

A woman (Gloria Grahame) alibis her screenwriter neighbor (Humphrey Bogart) accused of murder, and then begins having doubts.

An Assistant District Attorney (Humphrey Bogart) reviews his case against an organized crime leader.

During World War I, a spinster missionary (Katherine Hepburn) persuades a boozing riverboat captain (Humphrey Bogart) to use his boat in an attack on the Germans.

A throwback to the social-justice pictures Warner Brothers churned out in the 30s, Deadline U.S.A. casts Humphrey Bogart as the editor-in-chief of a big-city newspaper. Between trying to reunite with his ex-wife and stave off his paper being sold for parts he crusades to expose a gangster. The plot may be a near-ridiculous concoction of populist drama, but the execution shines.

During the Korean War, a womanizing surgeon (Humphrey Bogart) and an idealistic nurse (June Allyson) find romance while working in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.

The Caine Mutiny is an extremely well-done drama featuring a terrific performance from Humphrey Bogart.

A businessman (Humphrey Bogart) becomes alarmed when his younger brother’s (William Holden) romance with the chauffeur’s daughter (Audrey Hepburn) threatens a multi-million dollar deal.

A Spanish dancer (Ava Gardner) is plucked from obscurity and becomes a star with the help of a washed up director (Humphrey Bogart), only to find that happiness is more elusive than she thought.

On turn-of-the-century Devil’s Island, three escaped convicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Ray) end up aiding a shopkeeper they initially intended to rob.

Set in war-torn 1947 China, the Left Hand of God sees Humphrey Bogart as a gruff priest struggling against a warlord played by Lee J. Cobb.

Three escaped convicts (Humphrey Bogart, Dewey Martin, and Robert Middleton) terrorize a suburban family.

A hard-luck sportswriter (Humphrey Bogart) hypes a naïve Argentinean boxer for the mob.