Bogie's Films with Lauren Bacall:

A poster from DARK PASSAGE (1947).

Together again in THE BIG SLEEP (1946), again directed by Howard Hawks. This fast-moving film-noir thriller is riddled with entertaining dialog and was originally made in 1944 though held back from release until 1946. See my page on the film to find out why and read an explanation of the complicated plot.

A poster from KEY LARGO (1948), their final film together.

Memorable Quotations:

• "I wouldn't give you two cents for a dame without a temper." --as Roy Earle in HIGH SIERRA (1941).
• "When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses." --as Frank McCloud in KEY LARGO.
• "I was fired for insubordination - I seem to rate pretty high on that." --as Phillip Marlowe in THE BIG SLEEP (1946).
• "Here's looking at you, kid." --as Rick Blane in CASABLANCA (a .WAV file).
• "One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for." --as Frank McCloud in KEY LARGO (1948).
• "What is it?"
       "The ... uh... stuff that dreams are made of." --as Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941).
• "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it." --as Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941).
• "I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble." --as Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941).
• "You aren't exactly the sort of a person you pretend to be, are you?" --as Sam Spade in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941).
• "I was an orphan until I was twenty, and then a rich and beautiful lady adopted me." --as Billy Dannreuther in BEAT THE DEVIL (1954).
• "Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me there are four ways of doing things on board my ship: the right way, the wrong way, the navy way and my way. If they do things my way, we'll get along." --as Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg in THE CAINE MUTINY (1954) (a .WAV file).

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