The Big Sleep (1946)
Howard Hawks' 1946 Chandler adaptation. Plot incomprehensible even to the screenwriters.
Actor: Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey BogartThe African Queen (1951)
John Huston's 1951 WWI East Africa adventure. Bogart and Hepburn down a river to torpedo a German gunboat.
Humphrey BogartThe Caine Mutiny (1954)
1954 Edward Dmytryk courtroom drama with Humphrey Bogart as paranoid Captain Queeg. The strawberries, the ball bearings, the mutiny.
Claude RainsCasablanca (1942)
Curtiz's 1942 wartime romance. Holds every position it took during shooting.
Humphrey BogartThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Huston's 1948 gold-greed Western. Bogart deteriorating, Walter Huston dancing, Tim Holt holding the moral center.
Humphrey BogartThe Maltese Falcon (1941)
Huston's 1941 directorial debut. The film that established American film noir as a coherent style.