HUMPHREY BOGART’S TOP 10 MOVIES
“Sabrina” (1954): Bogart and William Holden play wealthy brothers vying for the daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of the family chauffeur in director and co-screenwriter Billy Wilder’s original version of the romantic comedy.
“The Caine Mutiny” (1954): Bogart is chilling as Captain Queeg, whose questionable actions aboard his Navy vessel lead to the court martial that two of his officers (Van Johnson, Robert Francis) face.
“The African Queen” (1951): Directed here to an Oscar victory by
John Huston, Bogart is ideal as a cranky boat captain partnered with a missionary (Katharine Hepburn) on a dangerous journey.
“Key Largo” (1948): Reunited with director John Huston, Bogart leads an impressive cast in Maxwell Anderson’s play about the hostages taken by a mobster (Edward G. Robinson) at a Florida hotel as a hurricane approaches.
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948): Huston steered both himself and his actor father Walter to Oscar wins for this classic gold-seeker drama, with Bogart and Tim Holt as the others hoping to get rich quick in Mexico.
“The Big Sleep” (1946): Bogart played another classic detective in literature, Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, in this complex mystery that involves the sleuth with the daughters (Bacall and Martha Vickers) of a general ... in a case that soon leads to murder.
“To Have and Have Not” (1944): Their first on-screen teaming resulted in an off-screen romance (and eventual marriage) for Bogart and
Lauren Bacall, who play a fisherman and the drifter who enters his life in this Ernest Hemingway story.
“Casablanca” (1942): Well, of course. In one of the most classic movies of all time, cafe owner Rick (Bogart) is torn between his usual modus operandi of minding his own business and helping an ex-love and her husband (Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid) secure the wartime transit they desperately need.
“High Sierra” (1941): As an exconvict out to pull his last job, Bogart is on the wrong side of the law in director Raoul Walsh’s tough melodrama.
“The Maltese Falcon” (1941): Bogart is private detective Sam Spade, pursuing “the stuff that dreams are made of” – the jewel-encrusted title statue – while also probing his partner’s murder in John Huston’s great adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett novel.