Bogart and Huston

“Bogart and Huston devotes a chapter to each film, retelling the plot, comparing it to its source material, and fully discussing the production both on and off the screen. The most interesting is the bizarro failure that has become a cult hit, Beat the Devil. Mr. Segaloff wittily sums up [Beat the Devil] as ‘born in compromise, planned in arrogance, filmed in panic, and released in desperation.’” – The Wall Street Journal
“Segaloff’s analysis of their friendship and its complexities fascinates.” – The Film Stage
“Segaloff does good work describing and advocating for their less remembered film together, Beat the Devil.” – The Shepherd Express
“An entertaining look at two brilliant Hollywood figures and the cinematic legacy they created.” – Library Journal
“Combining elements of biography and film history, with some making-of details added into the mix, the book explores the lives of two men who depended on each other to bring out their best (and in some cases, their worst). A welcome addition to the voluminous literature about Bogart, Huston, and the movies they made.” – Booklist
“A film critic celebrates one of cinema’s most fruitful writer-director alliances. An admirably non-hagiographic book. Segaloff charts classics from Key Largo (1948) to The African Queen (1951) to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and lesser efforts such as Beat the Devil (1953). It’s fun to read about these two men and their respective misadventures.” – Kirkus Reviews
“An unmistakable authenticity and authority pervade every word of Nat Segaloff’s Bogart and Huston. Penned with precision and elegant audacity, this singular sensation speaks volumes of the combined lives, careers, and films of the famed dynamic duo. The sheer ego and separate personas of this Tinseltown team—?partnered with and explored by Segaloff’s unmatched behind-the-scenes insight and literary expertise—make for a one-of-a-kind public delineation of a two-of-a-kind but very different, complex pair of Hollywood professionals.” – Herbie J. Pilato, actor/writer/producer
“Others have previously examined the celebrated careers of Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, but no one has ever ‘packaged’ them together in much the same way that studios still bundle creative elements. By counter-posing the lives of two of classic Hollywood’s most marketable men, Nat Segaloff reveals countless details about their process, not just in the movies they made together but as notable artists and individuals. Chock full of remarkable details, Bogart and Huston is well worth the price of admission.” – Alain Silver, author of The Films of David Lean and Film Noir Fatal Women
Quotes on Humphrey Bogart and John Huston:

“He was about something.” – Lauren Bacall on John Huston’s death
“John and Bogie were like children.” – Evelyn Keyes (Huston’s third wife)

Nat Segaloff has been a movie publicist and film critic, college instructor, broadcaster, speechwriter, and documentary film producer. Among his more than thirty books are biographies of William Friedkin, Arthur Penn, Harlan Ellison, John Milius, and Paul Mazursky, as well as comprehensive works on The Exorcist, Scarface, and Rambo. He lives in Los Angeles.

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