I always find it bizarre when Hollywood casts someone in an ethnic role who isn't ethnic. Good movie and I'm a big Bogart fan, but I don't know how to interpret his accent. Was it [his accent] bad because I know what Bogey should sound like, or was it just bad?
"Thank you for the coffee...and the SEVENTEEN floor climb!"
It was just bad!!
shareI think it was just bad. Just like Spencer Tracy's in Tortilla Flat. Not sure why they chose those two for Mexican characters, but it doesn't really matter, I enjoy them both, bad accents or not! :-)
shareI thought Bogart was convincing in his role as a Mexican bandit.
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Just plain bad. He didn't do too well with the Irish one, either, in Dark Victory, but he did better in that one than this. No comment on the acTING, just the acCENT.
But overall, Bogart was still a legend.
With a name like Murrell, Bogart was most likely playing a Mexican-American bandit. It was not a big role, maybe two or three days on the set for Bogie.
The real bandit John Murrell was born in Virginia and raised in Tennessee. He was not at all Mexican. I don't know why they had Bogart imitate a Mexican accent.Besides he died in 1844, about twenty years before the action in the movie takes place.
This is the Wikipedia article about the bandit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murrell_(bandit)
Wow. I just replied to a post written one and 1/2 years ago!