Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney were who the world was cheering on in the 1930s film world. The gangster film genre was in full swing, and as Robinson and Cagney ascended repeatedly to become kingpins of a given town only to fall back to being nothing again, a hopeful named Humphrey Bogart was just beginning his acting career. Stephen Bogart, the son of soon to be movie star Humphrey Bogart, stated in his book about his father that Humphrey was “not happy playing those parts.” Humphrey wanted to ascend the ranks of actors like Robinson and Cagney were doing in the crime world of their movies. According to George Perry in Bogie: A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey was a great disappointment to him mom at first.
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Humphrey Bogart played the main role of Rick. This movie was an incredible success. It combined love and sadness with the story of a cynic becoming an idealist. Warner Brothers made this movie as an attempt to aid the war effort. A later movie, Humphrey Bogart’s Sahara (1943), tells a more intimate picture of World War II though. Set in Northern Africa in 1943, Sahara features Humphrey Bogart playing the role of a U.S. Army Sergeant who is aiding the British war effort against the Nazis in Libya. Sergeant Gunn (Bogart) is the leader of a small troop who are rolling their tank across the Libyan Desert looking for water and for other Allied troops. After finally finding water, the growing group of allies (now with one German prisoner with them) realize that the Germans need water too. They set up at the top of the hill where they found the well and prepare to defend their water supply. Sahara is not a very well-known war movie today; however, from the World War II time period, Sahara was a normal war movie if there ever was one. Sahara also represents well the time period that it is from. In Sahara, the allies and enemies are depicted exactly as people would have described them in real life. Sahara also has great evidence of how important the war effort was in the U.S. for everyone. Also, the content of Sahara is evidence of some historical concepts about the motion picture industry that we
Humphrey Bogart played the main role of Rick. This movie was an incredible success. It combined love and sadness with the story of a cynic becoming an idealist. Warner Brothers made this movie as an attempt to aid the war effort. A later movie, Humphrey Bogart’s Sahara (1943), tells a more intimate picture of World War II though. Set in Northern Africa in 1943, Sahara features Humphrey Bogart playing the role of a U.S. Army Sergeant who is aiding the British war effort against the Nazis in Libya. Sergeant Gunn (Bogart) is the leader of a small troop who are rolling their tank across the Libyan Desert looking for water and for other Allied troops. After finally finding water, the growing group of allies (now with one German prisoner with them) realize that the Germans need water too. They set up at the top of the hill where they found the well and prepare to defend their water supply. Sahara is not a very well-known war movie today; however, from the World War II time period, Sahara was a normal war movie if there ever was one. Sahara also represents well the time period that it is from. In Sahara, the allies and enemies are depicted exactly as people would have described them in real life. Sahara also has great evidence of how important the war effort was in the U.S. for everyone. Also, the content of Sahara is evidence of some historical concepts about the motion picture industry that we