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2015

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Beat the devil / A Santana-Romulus Production ; screenplay by Truman Capote and John Huston from the novel by James Helvick ; directed by John Huston.
Publisher, Date:	[Rockport, MA] : The Film Detective, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black &white ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD
Summary:	Adventure story set aboard a steamer bound for Africa. The passengers attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a piece of land they think has uranium on it.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: Not rated.
Series:	Film Detective restored classics Restored classics, the Film Detective archive.
Subjects:	Cockburn, Claud, 1904-1981 -- Film adaptations. Swindlers and swindling -- Drama.
Genre:	Action and adventure films. Feature films. Fiction films. Film adaptations.
Other Author:	Huston, John, 1906-1987, film producer, director, screenwriter. Capote, Truman, 1924-1984, screenwriter. Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957, actor. Jones, Jennifer, 1919-2009, actor. Lollobrigida, Gina, 1927-2023, actor. Morley, Robert. actor. Lorre, Peter. actor. Underdown, Edward, 1908-1989, actor. Morris, Oswald, 1915-2014, director of photography. Kemplen, Ralph, 1912-2004, film editor. Mannino, Franco, 1924-2005, composer. Motion picture adaptation of (work): Cockburn, Claud, 1904-1981. Beat the devil. Santana Pictures Corporation. production company. Romulus Productions. production company. Film Detective (Firm), film distributor.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Based on the novel Beat the Devil by James Helvick, alias Claud Cockburn. Director of photography, Oswald Morris; music, Franco Mannino; editor, Ralph Kemplen. Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Edward Underdown. DVD, all region, 1:78:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital.
Publisher Number:	FD0019
Other Number:	967782172
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	1047359
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD MOVIE Beat the

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