Silver Screen Icons: Humphrey Bogart Gangsters

The Petrified Forest (1946)

Based on Robert Sherwood's play about mobsters holding the residents of an isolated Arizona diner hostage, this classic gangster drama stars Leslie Howard as a failed writer whose appearance in the café attracts the interest of a waitress (Bette Davis). Fate then brings them into contact with thug Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart, in the role that made him a star), when he and his gang of fugitives take them prisoner in a bid to escape the law. With Charley Grapewin, Genevieve Tobin. 82 min. BW/Rtg: NR

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

Warners took aim at its popular gangster films with this satirical crime tale starring Edward G. Robinson as noted psychiatrist/author Dr. Clitterhouse, whose research into best understanding the criminal mind leads him to commit a series of jewel robberies and become the leader of a gang of crooks. Director Anatole Litvak’s adaptation of Barré Lyndon’s play co-stars Humphrey Bogart as the bad doc's scheming second-in-command, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp. 87 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Brother Orchid (1940)

After laying low in Europe, mob boss Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) came home to pick up where he left off...and caught a bullet from former lieutenant Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart), who’d gotten used to being in charge. On the run, the wounded Sarto is taken in by the members of a remote monastery and finds the peace he’d never known...until circumstances force him to confront Buck one last time. Offbeat gangland comedy/drama co-stars Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, Donald Crisp. 87 min. BW/Rtg: NR

All Through The Night (1941)

Dapper New York gambler "Gloves" Donahue's (Bogart) search for the missing baker who prepares his favorite cheesecake leads him and his cronies into battle with Nazi spies. With Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, and a young Jackie Gleason; directed by Vincent Sherman. 107 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.