"Beat the Devil" went straight from box office flop to cult classic and has been called the first camp movie, although Bogart, who sank his own money into it, said, "Only phonies like it." It's a movie that was made up on the spot; Huston tore up the original screenplay on the first day of filming, flew the young Truman Capote to Ravallo, Italy, to crank out new scenes against a daily deadline and allowed his supporting stars, especially Robert Morley and Peter Lorre, to create dialogue for their own characters. (Capote spoke daily by telephone with his pet raven, and one day when the raven refused to answer he flew to Rome to console it, further delaying the production.) -
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
posted by Trurl
on May 22, 2011 -
21 comments
In December 1966,
ABC 's Stage 67 broadcast a teleplay of
Truman Capote's beloved short story,
"A Christmas Memory." It won both an Emmy, and Peabody, and was narrated by
the author himself. Parts
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6.
posted by timsteil
on Dec 16, 2010 -
6 comments
A brilliant farce (or is it)
The Antichrist Conspiracy,
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posted by nola
on Jan 17, 2010 -
52 comments
