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(More customer reviews)First, this collection contains FIVE tapes, although there are FOUR movies in this exquisite collection celebrating one of the great couples on and off screen in the history of Hollywood. The fifth tape is the 1988 documentary "Bacall on Bogart," which serves as a fitting capstone to the four films included in this collection, three of which are outright classics. The legend begins in the Howard Hawks directed "To Have and Have Not" (1944), with the most famous whistle in movie history. Based on one of Hemingway's lesser novels with dialogue from no less than William Faulkner, this "Casablanca" clone features Bogart reluctantly becoming involved with the French Resistance, not to mention Bacall, stunning in her film debut. Hawks also directs "The Big Sleep" (1946), the classic mystery thriller adapted from Raymond Chandler's first novel (again with Faulkner's help) with Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Bacall as the rich lady in trouble. If you like convoluted plotlines, this one is for you. John Houston's "Key Largo" (1948) adapts Maxwell Anderson's play about Edward G. Robinson's tough gangster holding Bogart, Bacall and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Claire Trevor captive in a Florida hotel during a tropical storm. The one lesser work in the group is "Dark Passage" (1947), directed by Delmer Daves, but it is still an above-average film. Bogart is an escaped convict who undergoes plastic surgery and is hiding out in Bacall's apartment until his face heals. A bit contrived, but Bogart and Bacall are well worth watching, which is the entire point of this collection. Now if somebody would be something similar next Christmas for Tracy and Hepburn.
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