Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4546 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-01-01
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Number of discs: 4

Customer Reviews

Did you Ever Get Bitten by a Dead Bee?
Everything is a classic these days even before anyone outside the studio has seen it, therefore the language has become debased and cheapened. These films on the other hand come from an era when film stars were actually something special and films valued the art of story telling. Sure there were strong commercial presures.

To Have and Have Not is a reworking ot the successful Casablanca theme. The ignition of the Bogart/Bacal chemistry helped that film ride above the obvious formula at work. This goes to show that great movies can be made under the mort crass attempts to cash in on a previous success.

Out of these films I guess that Dark Passage is the least well liked but I always loved the way that they avoided the complication of trying to convince us with two actors playing on character, before and after plastic surgery by only showing us the action from his point of view until the bandages came off and he was revealed as looking just like Humphrey Bogart!

How did he become a rugged sex symbol with a anme like Humphrey? I once asked a colleague this question, she was just short of retirement and very strong and serious woman. She immediately transformed into a blushing girl and said, "Yes but he really had it!". I gained an interseting insight into both my colleague and Bogart that day and they have never seemed that same since.

These are all 5 star films. I would have bought this for the recurring line in To Have & Have Not alone: "Did you ever get bitten by a dead bee?"

incredible connection
seriously
starting from 'To Have and Have Not' where they met and fell in love to the much underrated 'Dark Passage' and the complicated 'The Big Sleep' to eventually 'Key Largo' they are electric on screen

she gorgeous he rugged and swell.. a curious romance weaved in these four films.. tough and sexy in the understated way of the time
i liked it.. i'd like more..

no frills (strangely a massive range of subtitle languages) with the package but at the price who could complain

if you've never seen these b&w classics you have to and if you did but it's been soo long.. it's time to revisit

The signature collection of H. Boggart and L. Bacall
All movies in this collection are classic BW criminal movies that I appreciate very much