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John Huston (screenplay) and
W.R. Burnett (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
25 January 1941 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Blazing Mountain Manhunt for Killer 'Mad-Dog' Earle! more
Plot:
Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery... more | full synopsis
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(2 articles)
Film poster auction in UK to fetch £170,000
(From BoxWish. 1 September 2009, 4:32 AM, PDT)
Movie Reviews: The Way Of The Gun
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 8 September 2000)
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Impressive screenplay more (52 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ida Lupino | ... | Marie |
 | Humphrey Bogart | ... | Roy Earle |
| Alan Curtis | ... | 'Babe' |
| Arthur Kennedy | ... | 'Red' |
 | Joan Leslie | ... | Velma |
| Henry Hull | ... | 'Doc' Banton |
| Henry Travers | ... | Pa |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Healy |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Mrs. Baughmam |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Jake Kranmer |
| Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Ma (as Elizabeth Risdon) |
 | Cornel Wilde | ... | Louis Mendoza |
| Donald MacBride | ... | Big Mac |
| Paul Harvey | ... | Mr. Baughmam |
| Isabel Jewell | ... | Blonde |
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100 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Australia:G (TV rating) | Argentina:Atp | Finland:(Banned) (1942) | Finland:K-8 (1990) | USA:Approved (certificate #6563) | Australia:PG | Germany:12 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | Canada:PG
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Humphrey Bogart''s part in this movie was originally intended for Paul Muni. Muni did not like the first draft of the screenplay which was authored solely by John Huston and given to him by Hal B. Wallis, so Wallis got the book's author W.R. Burnett to assist John Huston in a second rewrite. This rewrite was presented to Paul Muni who still disliked it and turned the movie and the role down completely. In the meantime, On May 4th, 1940, Humphrey Bogart sent a telegram to Hal B. Wallis reiterating his continuing desire, which he had mentioned several months earlier, to play the part of Roy Earle. After Muni turned down the script the next person on the list for Warner Brothers was George Raft. Bogart, knowing that Raft was trying to change his image and move away from gangster roles, found out about this and mentioned to Raft when he saw him next that the studio was trying to get him do another gangster movie where the gangster gets shot at the end. Raft marched into Hal B. Wallis office and flatly refused to do the movie. Bogart finally ended up with the role he wanted all along by default. more
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Continuity: During the chase up Mt. Whitney, the dust from the camera car can be seen kicking up in front of Roy's car and the police motorcycles. more
Quotes:
Marie Garson: Yeah, I get it, 'ya always sorta hope 'ya can get out, it keeps 'ya going. more
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Referenced in Body Fever (1969) more
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I Get a Kick out of You (1934) more
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It is a great Bogart vehicle. But what makes Bogart look good is the fine screenplay. Not having read Burnett's book is a disadvantage for me to judge the contribution of Burnett and John Huston to the screenplay. Being familiar with Huston's screenplays, I tend to think it was Huston who probably made all the difference to the screenplay.
Huston loved to play on the good side of men that became sometimes comical and sometimes their folly. In "High Sierra" the goodness in the "mad dog" is played up: the bad guy looks good. Huston did that with aplomb in "The Man who would be King". At the same time he reverses the role of the poor girl with the clubfoot into an ungrateful woman. Only animals remain the same...
The lines are made for Bogart's style. The direction of Walsh is not bad but not striking either. I will remember the film for the strong screenplay alone, without which the film would have floundered.