Beat the Devil

Offbeat is the only way to describe this John Huston/Truman Capote collaboration--the script's unusual qualities perhaps due partly to the fact it was being written even as the film was being shot--about a ragtag group of con men out to swindle each other while on a Mediterranean cruise. Humphrey Bogart (who helped finance the film) and Gina Lollobrigida play a married couple whose adulterous urges figure into the complex, loosey-goosey plot. Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre co-star. 89 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono.