Capote

Nice story Flux....except in the movie "Capote", he is definately referring to "beat the Devil". At the dinner table he talks about hurrying to finish writing the next days scenes because Truman Capote was purportedly brought to complete the script late in the piece when James Helvick left or was fired. Truman Capote had nothing to do with "The African Queen" and Bogart and Huston never got sick because they never drank the water. They were constantly drinking alcohol much to Audrey Hepburn's disgust who drank nothing BUT the water and suffered a sever case of dysentery.

Anyway, figured i'd clear that up. Humphrey Bogart and John Huston were good friends and worked on over half a dozen movies together such as "Maltese Falcon", "Key Largo" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre". I'm sure they were regular drinking buddies.

The Huston-Bogart drinking binges, mentioned in "Capote", took place at the Hotel Palumbo Bar, Ravello, Italy. The filmmaking antics that evolved from shooting the picture as it was being written (with only 2 copies of the script available for reading on the set) were the talk of Hollywood for some time and inspired William Styron's 1960 novel, "Set this House on Fire". It was the kind of experiment most casts and crews would have loved to experience, so it was the subject of countless cocktail conversations. A million dollars of Bogart's money went up in smoke filming what has been long considered the ultimate location-party. Ultimately, the picture stood the test of time. Now, it's considered to be the first great cult film. It certainly put Ravello on the American map. Jackie Kennedy, Gore Vidal, and everyone else in the emerging jet-set came to party in Ravello. Today, the town has 22 hotels, including five 5-Star, and has become the tiara of the Amalfi Coast.