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Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida in her American debut. Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon the 1951 novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn writing under the pseudonym James Helvick. Huston intended the film as a sort of loose parody of his 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, which also starred Bogart. Capote said, "John [Huston] and I decided to kid the story, to treat it as a parody. Instead of another Maltese Falcon, we turned it into a... [spoof] on this type of film."
- Director
- John Huston
- Writer
- John Huston · Truman Capote
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- Release date
- 1953 · Released
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Country of origin
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Genres
- Action · Adventure · Horror · Crime · Parody
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Schach dem Teufel
- Español
- La burla del diablo
- Français
- Plus fort que le diable
- Italiano
- Il tesoro dell'Africa
- 日本語
- 悪魔をやっつけろ
- 한국어
- 비트 더 데블
- Polski
- Pobij diabła
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Poster from Wikimedia Commons.