Beat The Devil

1953
US
1h 40min
PG

Directed by: John Huston
Written by: James Helvick (novel), John Huston, Truman Capote
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, Edward Underdown, Ivor Barnard, Marco Tulli, Bernard Lee, Saro Urzì

Truman Capote had a hand in the scripting of this hugely enjoyable exercise in self-parody, wherein a group of passengers on a ship crossing the Mediterranean plan to buy land known to contain uranium. The film's wry self-reflexivity means lots of fun for genre addicts.