No, this is not the recent Western fronted by Idris Elba. It’s a 1956 boxing movie with Humphrey Bogart. The Harder They Fall was Bogart’s final film role. He was diagnosed with cancer shortly before production, but kept this secret from his fellow cast. The movie is a noir-ish critique of the boxing industry, especially…
The Enforcer
I’m a big Humphrey Bogart fan but I’m not sure if I have ever seen 1951’s The Enforcer. Aside from sharing its title with a much later Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry sequel, I know it is a police procedural cum film noir. The movie was released under the title Murder Inc. in the UK, which…
The Roaring Twenties / High Sierra
Here are a pair of original stills for two Humphrey Bogart classics. I am not an avid collector of film stills, and I do not pretend to know much about how to authenticate them as originals. These both appealed, however – both in terms of the images, plus I particularly like the text at the…