Sentences with phrase «glamorous star vehicle»
It's the classic hardboiled private - eye movie; the nervy maiden offering of its celebrated director, John Huston; the first glamorous star vehicle for Humphrey Bogart, an icon of American cinema and the 20th century's definition of existential cool; and still the most triumphantly well - cast movie from Hollywood's golden age (rivaled only by Casablanca).
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Staccato (the softening «Johnny» was later added, over Cassavetes» objections) may have been a one - season wonder, but it enabled its leading man to underwrite Shadows, throw work to his pals, and hone his directing chops, while providing the closest thing he would ever have to a glamorous star vehicle.