Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes

An upcoming theatrical documentary about one of the greatest actors of Hollywood's golden era, one Humphrey Bogart. Using archival interviews w/his co-stars & primarily the love of life, Lauren Bacall we trace his roots where his family was fairly well off (his father had money while his stern mother was a well-known magazine illustrator), he became a theater actor abandoning Hollywood after getting typecast a lot in his early roles but when he was cast against John Leslie in 1936's The Petrified Forest, his path was set where in roles in Casablanca, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon et al he excelled playing the tough guy w/a heart. Through the following years even in bad films just his presence was enough to elevate the material even though he'd get an Oscar for The African Queen but after hitting the trifecta as it were, being at the top of his game, married w/a pair of children, life caught up to him when he got cancer w/the ironically titled The Harder They Fall being his last film. A lot of food for thought on ol' Bogie which will hopefully entice viewers to watch (or rewatch) his classics (I still find myself getting excited over the prospect of seeing a film of his which I never saw before) as this presentation becomes the choice 'go to' to find out about the man.