Beat the Devil
Studio: John and James Woolf, Humphrey Bogart
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
Director: John Huston
Writer: John Huston, Truman Capote
Producer: John Huston
Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida in her American debut. Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon the 1951 novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn writing under the pseudonym James Helvick.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- The movie was financed by the Woolf brothers, who had made The African Queen and Moulin Rogue with Huston.
- During the filming of Beat the Devil, Humphrey Bogart lost several of his teeth in a car accident.
- Peter Sellers, unknown internationally but with a talent for imitating voices, was hired to dub lines while Bogart was adjusting to the loss of his teeth and unable to speak clearly.
Filming Locations
- Much of the film was shot at Ravello, above Italy's Amalfi Coast.
Previous Showings
17 Runs • 17 Festivals
23,270 tickets sold
All runs on record (17):
- January 31 - February 6, 1997Featuring Humphrey Bogartw/ Sabrina
- January 31 - February 6, 1998 · 3,069 ticketsMovie Listing Guide February 1998w/ Sabrina
- December 11 - 14, 1999 · 1,169 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ The African Queen
- September 13 - 14, 2001 · 749 ticketssummer2k1w/ To Have and Have Not
- August 16 - 19, 2003 · 2,301 ticketsSummer 2003w/ The African Queen
- August 12 - 16, 2005 · 3,019 ticketsSummer 2005w/ The African Queen
- June 18 - 20, 2008 · 999 ticketsSummer 2008 Bette Davis, James Stewart, silent films and more!w/ Love is a Many Splendored Thing
- November 14 - 20, 2008 · 1,763 ticketsHumphrey Bogart Also, Holiday Favoritesw/ Casablanca
- November 17 - 19, 2009 · 362 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ Foreign Correspondent
- January 19 - 20, 2010 · 305 ticketsRemembering Jennifer Jonesw/ Cluny Brown
- August 17 - 20, 2013 · 1,707 ticketsSummer 2013w/ The African Queen
- July 11 - 14, 2015 · 1,693 ticketsSummer 2015 Forty Classics from the Golden Age Including Kurosawa in Augustw/ Sabrina
- July 30 - August 2, 2016 · 1,398 ticketsSummer 2016w/ Sabrina
- February 15 - 17, 2019 · 1,779 ticketsHumphrey Bogart Festivalw/ The African Queen
- July 30 - 31, 2022 · 976 ticketsSummer 2022w/ Sabrina
- September 29 - October 1, 2023 · 1,232 ticketsSeptember 2023 Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn every Friday through Sundayw/ How to Steal a Million
- August 7 - 8, 2025 · 749 ticketsSummer 2025w/ In a Lonely Place