The Big Shot (1942 film)

The Big Shot
The Big Shot
Directed by	Lewis Seiler
Written by	Bertram Millhauser; Abem Finkel; Daniel Fuchs
Produced by	Walter MacEwen
Starring	Humphrey Bogart; Irene Manning
Cinematography	Sid Hickox
Edited by	Jack Killifer
Music by	Adolph Deutsch
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Release date	June 13, 1942;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$417,000
Box office	$1,783,000

The Big Shot (1942) is an American film noir crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a crime boss and Irene Manning as the woman he falls in love with. Having finally reached stardom with such projects as The Maltese Falcon (1941), this would be the last film in which former supporting player Bogart would portray a gangster for Warner Bros. (He would play a gangster one last time in his penultimate film, The Desperate Hours, distributed by Paramount).^[2]

Although The Big Shot entered production after Across the Pacific, it was released nearly three months earlier.^[2] Considered one of Bogart's lesser-known works, contemporary reviews of The Big Shot describe it as an unexceptional throwback to his earlier gangster films, most likely trying to take advantage of the success of crime drama, High Sierra (1941).^[3] It was released on DVD for the first time by Warner Archive early in 2015.^[4]

Cast[]

Humphrey Bogart as Joseph "Duke" Berne
Irene Manning as Lorna Fleming
Richard Travis as George Anderson
Susan Peters as Ruth Carter
Stanley Ridges as Martin T. Fleming
Minor Watson as Warden George Booth
Chick Chandler as Frank "Dancer" Smith
Joe Downing as Frenchy (as Joseph Downing)
Howard Da Silva as Sandor
Murray Alper as Quinto
Roland Drew as Faye
John Ridgely as Tim
Joe King as Prosecutor Toohey (as Joseph King)
John Hamilton as Judge
Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Booth
William Edmunds as Sarto
Virginia Sale as Mrs. Miggs
Ken Christy as Kat
Wallace Scott as Rusty

Box Office[]

According to Warner Bros records the film earned $939,000 domestically and $844,000 foreign.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 22 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ ^a ^b Nollen, Scott Allen (2007). Warners Wiseguys: All 112 Films That Robinson, Cagney and Bogart Made for the Studio. McFarland. p. 317. ISBN 9780786432622. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
^ McCarty, John (2009). Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture From The Silents To ""The Sopranos"". Da Capo Press. p. 170. ISBN 9780786738755. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
^ The Big Shot at Warner Archive

External links[]

The Big Shot at IMDb
The Big Shot at the TCM Movie Database
The Big Shot at AllMovie
The Big Shot is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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[warners-1] Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 22 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

[nollen-2] Nollen, Scott Allen (2007). Warners Wiseguys: All 112 Films That Robinson, Cagney and Bogart Made for the Studio. McFarland. p. 317. ISBN 9780786432622. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

[3] McCarty, John (2009). Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture From The Silents To ""The Sopranos"". Da Capo Press. p. 170. ISBN 9780786738755. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

[4] The Big Shot at Warner Archive

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