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But three servants and a free-standing lab with a full-time lab assistant. And of course patronizing friends.
I really didn’t care much at all for Dark Victory, not even for Humphrey Bogart and his faked Irish accent. Sort of fun to see Ronald Reagan playing a drunken playboy, though it’s possible that being incoherently amiable wasn’t a big stretch for him.
I can see that this is a great performance by Bette Davis before she became “Bette Davis” but the plot is so ridiculous and the rest of the cast so lame that I don’t really care much. It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen Humphrey Bogart do.
By the way, as a Kentuckian I feel compelled to set the record straight. I’ve seen reviews that say that Bogart is playing a “stable hand.” He is, in fact, the trainer for the heiress’s stable of steeplechasers. Not a lowly job, though it doesn’t exactly make him one of the gentry.
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