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Close-up up of Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee with gun The Petrified Forest 1936 Art Print
by David Lee Guss
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Close-up up of Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee with gun The Petrified Forest 1936 art print by David Lee Guss. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Alan Squier: Tell us, Duke, what kind of a life have you had?... more
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Alan Squier: Tell us, Duke, what kind of a life have you had?
Duke Mantee: What do you think? I spend most of my time since I grew up in jail - it looks like I'll spend the rest of my life dead.
"While Robinson was a swaggering mobster of the white ethnic ghetto, and Cagney a wisecracking gangster, Bogart was a killer with haunted eyes who defied all attempts at context, the unknowable outsider who shared his past and his thoughts with no one."
"Bogart's performance was even enhanced by the film. His underplayed, monosyllabic portrayal, with is suggestion of violence ready to erupt, its economy pared even further in the screenplay, was perfectly suited to the medium. The close-ups caught the desolation in his eyes, the sudden tightening of his scarred lip, and suggested the smoldering fires that propelled the outlaw anti-hero."
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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