Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage' 2003
Bogart was interested in this project because it offered a chance to work with his new bride. The studio wasn't convinced, but the result speaks for itself.
Bogart was interested in this project because it offered a chance to work with his new bride. The studio wasn't convinced, but the result speaks for itself.
An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
In the '40s Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules Furthman writes a script, which follows the book closely. The location of the story is Cuba, but the US Government is against depicting corruption and violence on Cuba, and threatens to withdraw the film's export license. William Faulkner rewrites the script, and relocates the story to Martinique. Hawks's wife, Nancy Slim Gross, happens to see a young model at the cover of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and shows it to her husband. Hawks is a star-maker, who likes to discover and nurture new talents. After a screen test, he chooses the 19-year-old model as the lead actress opposite Humphrey Bogart. She changes her name from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. At the first takes she is so nervous that she shakes.
Bonus feature on the Dumbo DVD.
Film historians examines the making of the 1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
A documentary about the making of the cult classic Disney Movie Atlantis.
An interview with John Hench.
A documentary short extra on the Mickey Mouse - Living Color Vol. 2.
A featurette exploring the gangster films made at Warner Bros., actor Humphrey Bogart's career and the making of HIGH SIERRA (1941).
Leonard Maltin talks about the history of Mickey Mouse's voice.
A documentary on the making of the classic Hollywood musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
A interview with Joe Grant.