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Beat The Devil

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4 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

ONE STAR is for the poor transfer. Take my word for it - buying this so called "remastered" classic film is a waste of money. I opted for this more expensive edition thinking I'd get a decent print. Instead, it was of such poor quality - constantly breaking up, and at time completely stopping, I gave up watching. An old copy I have from TV is far superior.
Amazon should be ashamed they listed this item for sale.
Go for the cheaper version - I doubt it could be worse.

"Beat the devil" is a landmark movie. A film that may be regarded as a satire of the Maltese falcon, spiced with acidic lines and touches of surrealistic vignettes all the way through.

I wouldn't dare to affirm this movie was extremely close in what European taste concerns with Moulin Rouge, of the same director. Elegant, refined and filmed with genuine panache and unsurpassable style in the mood of great tradition of the highest class standards of black humor.

That's why the main reason this is -with The Maltese falcon- the two most reminded cult movies of this legendary director.

This black-and-white movie from the 50s is over the top, has a splendid cast, and, if you can put up with its production flaws, is hysterically funny. Everybody is trying to "con" everybody else, and nothing works out for anyone. Wonderful!

First off, its amazing how many people complain about bad quality of old old movies.

I wanted to get a good copy of this (to replace my VHS) and opted for a this version. I was a little wary looking at a review, but I was very pleased. I put it in my DVD/Bluray and it up-played it even more. Compared to older copies, this is probably the best that we can make a movie shot on film almost 60 years ago.


Video 8/10
Sound 8/10


Highly recommend!

The quality of this dvd is marginal. The voices and lips don't match up for the first part of the movie which is very annoying but then they come together. There are several times when the dvd stopped but would resume on it's own. I know it's an old movie but if I paid more than $5.00 for it (which I did), it was too much.

A Classic black and white movie directed by John Huston. The script was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot. It concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers trying to obtain claims to uranium deposits in Kenya as they loiter in a small Italian port in order to travel aboard a tramp steamer en route to Mombasa, Kenya. Classic Bogart.

I don't know what they consinder remastering but the image quality is very poor. Not only that but the disk began skipping half way through the film and never stopped. I would consider the other version.