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Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood(2006)
A look at the motion picture production code and its effects on Hollywood.
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'(2003)
An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon."
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.
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.
Short documentary about prohibition and gangsters and how it affected the movies of the day.
An examination of "White Heat" (1949) by film historians and critics.
The Making of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Donald Spoto and Drew Casper.
The making of the film with Drew Casper.
This documentary is featured on Warner Brothers' DVD for The Roaring Twenties (1939), released in 2005.
Short documentary about the making of "The Petrified Forest."
A featurette exploring the gangster films made at Warner Bros., actor Humphrey Bogart's career and the making of HIGH SIERRA (1941).
Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?(2005)
Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), hosted by film historian Rudy Behlmer.
Documentary looking at the film classic, They Drive By Night
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