I have been on a mostly unreviewed Bogart fest. I watched Treasure of the Sierra Madre and rewatched The African Queen as well. Good movies!
Tokyo Joe I put on without a second thought, feeling kinda sick and high on edibles while I recovered from tonsil surgery. Humphrey Bogart stars in this film noir sorta drama, and I had no idea what to expect.
What I could never have predicted was how unintentionally hlarious moments of this were, as well as how bizarrely influential to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! Seriously, what a strange duo of things for this movie to pull out of it's ass, but I mean seriously!
First we meet Bogart's daughter he didn't know existed. The uber-wooden, awfully scripted, overacted part is pure comic gold. The little girl never blinks and delivers hyper adult, unrealistic dialogue as she doesn't move and inch and bores a hole directly into Bogey's face. Tried to find a quote of hers from the IMDb page but nothing doing, take my goddamn word for it brah.
Then we have the place sequence where first off all I notice Bogey is dressed like Indiana Jones and then the sequence in the plane, while not being from an action movie, really reminded me of the sequence in Loa Che's airplane at the beginning of Temple.
I scoured IMDb and Wikipedia, no work on those about the connection to Indiana Jones. What a bizarre thing though! I mean it's not a 1:1 but watch those movies and tell me they're not loosely connected.
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