Humphrey Bogart is joined by Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre among the star-studded cast in Beat the Devil, a classic caper scripted by Truman Capote. A masterful shaggy dog story that’s part comedy and part thriller, nothing is quite what it seems in director John Huston’s wry send-up of film noir, including his own The Maltese Falcon.

As one of a disparate group of fortune-seekers bound for Africa, hard-up Billy Dannreuther (Humphrey Bogart) faces the swindling machinations of his fellow travellers as they await passage from a picturesque port on Italy’s Amalfi coast. But with scheming aplenty, will this motley crew miss the boat completely?

Beat the Devil will be released on Blu-ray and DVD as a Dual Format edition, with simultaneous release on BFI Player, iTunes and Amazon, by the BFI on 16 March 2020 at the RRP of £19.99 for the Dual Format release.

Special features:

• Audio commentary featuring film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman (2018)
• Audio commentary featuring DoP Oswald Morris, script supervisor Angela Allen and director’s assistant Jeanie Sims (2007)
• Alexander Cockburn on Beat the Devil (2012, 22 mins): the writer talks about his father, Claud Cockburn, from whose novel the film was adapted from
• By the Fireside (1945, 2 mins): an advertisement for Maypole Tea emphasising the quintessential Englishness of the afternoon tea ritual
• Atomic Achievement (1956, 19 mins): a public information film celebrating the advances of nuclear power in the UK
• Stills gallery
• ***FIRST PRESSING ONLY*** Fully illustrated booklet with essays by Peter Tonguette and Alexander Cockburn; notes on the special features and full film credits

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