• Romance and crime are alluring themes in this double feature. 
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• The late Walter Matthau directs and stars in GANGSTER STORY, a mob story with an emphasis on personal relations rather than gunplay. 
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• Matthau's girlfriend keeps the heat on to get him to leave the mob behind. 
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• John Huston and Truman Capote co-wrote BEAT THE DEVIL while working on location. 
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• This is a whimsical parody of THE MALTESE FALCON and other 1940's detective movies in which Bogart so often starred (and Huston directed). 
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• It describes the exploits of a group of travelers on a steamboat. 
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• Each hopes to carry off a huge swindle in the uranium fields of Northern Africa. 
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• While not a commercial success upon its release, the film has come to define the genre of spy movie spoofs.