Dec 4, 2021
The turning point of his career was in 1941, with two great performances, in John Huston’s debut, “The Maltese Falcon,” and in Raoul Walsh’s “High Sierra,” a part that he got when first choice George Raft rejected it.
The novelist and screenwriter Raymon Chandler once summarized the essence of the Bogart screen persona in the following way: “Bogart could be tough without a gun. He has a sense of humor that contains that grating undertone of contempt.”
