The Big Shot

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.)

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Even though The Big Shot went into production after Across the Pacific, it was released nearly three months earlier. 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 1941's crime drama, High Sierra. It was released on DVD for the first time by Warner Archive early in 2015.

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