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Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida, in her American debut, and featuring Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee. [5]
English: Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure/comedy film directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida and Jennifer Jones. Plot: Harry Chelm and his wife Gwendolen are in Italy where they meet a second couple, Maria Dannreuther and her husband Billy.
Beat the Devil may refer to: Beat the Devil, a 1951 thriller written by Claud Cockburn; Beat the Devil, a 1953 film directed by John Huston; Beat the Devil, a 2002 short film in The Hire series, starring James Brown and Gary Oldman; Beat the Devil, a 2020 book, monologue play, and film written by David Hare
Among his novels were Beat the Devil (originally under the pseudonym James Helvick), The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, [19] and Jericho Road. Beat the Devil was made into a film in 1953 by the director John Huston, who paid Cockburn £3,000 for the rights to the book and screenplay.
On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.” A decade earlier ...
In John Huston's Beat the Devil (1953), Terence Pettigrew considers Lee to have been instrumental to the climax of the film, remarking that it was "left to Bernard Lee to inject a badly needed touch of earthiness at the end." [12] In total, Lee appeared in over one hundred films during his career. [13]
Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental-health advocate.Over the course of her career that spanned more than five decades, she was nominated for an Academy Award five times, including one win for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama.
Sometime in the 1940s, Raymond Fernandez met his match in Martha Beck. While behind bars for petty crimes, Fernandez had convinced himself he could use voodoo to gain power over women.