Beat the Devil

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Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure yarn about a group of shady characters trying to smuggle uranium out of East Africa but who are waylaid in Italy. The leader of group is Billy Dannreuther (Humphry Bogart), who once owned a local villa in Italy. Now reduced to having his hotel bills paid by a crook named Peterson (Robert Morley), Billy is being bankrolled to buy up a plot of land in Kenya. Presumably the parcel includes vast quantities of uranium and will get Billy back on his feet again. Because of a malfunctioning boat and an inebriated captain, however, Billy is stuck in Italy. While there, Billy tries to court the wife (Jennifer Jones) of a British aristocrat, Harry Chelm (Edward Underdown). At the same time, Billy's wife Maria (Gine Lollabrigida) starts her own thing with Chelm. Beat the Devil is based on a novel by James Helvick and was directed by John Huston. Huston flew Truman Capote in after filming began to help work on the script and the movie is largely improvised.moreless
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