Cagney/Bogey fight
They appear to lock horns for a very realistic fight scene. In actuality, how much of the fight were the two of them involved in and how much was stuntmen? Did they wrestle with each other at all?
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Since Cagney could handle himself in a fight, and Bogart could not (see John Huston's mocking account of how Truman Capote beat Bogart in arm wrestling and then pinned him in a wrestling match -- whatever happened in this scene, Bogart was not involved.
shareWhen was this supposed to have happened? In the fifties, when Bogie was dying of cancer? In his youth, Bogart was something of a brawler; he was thrown out of several of the best schools on the east coast for fighting. In the fight scene, you can see cuts where it's the stunt men, and other parts where it is clearly the principles doing their own work. Even if Bogart were as weak as you seem to think he was, that wouldn't have much impact on a staged fight scene, would it?
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Yeah, really. Bogart and his third wife, Mayo Methot (who was a raging alcoholic), had so many public brawls during the 30s, both with strangers and each other, that they became known as the "Battling Bogarts." Plus, he'd been in the military during WWI and was an MP.
I don't think Bogart was any stranger to fighting.
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