Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on August 23, 2020

Hard-boiled on screen and off. George Raft was the essence of the 1930s cinema gangster – calculating, ruthless, and always handy with a gat. Off-screen, he led a life that often mirrored his big-screen persona, rubbing shoulders with such real-life mobsters as Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden and once   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 3, 2016

Share This! Love in the midst of intrigue! Many films were made after the gross successes of The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, mostly by Warner Brothers and repurposing various reconfigurations of the original cast of those two films, though all excluded Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.  The “ho   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on December 8, 2013

This time around, Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions brings you the 1961 opus "The George Raft Story." We open in a nightclub, with 1960s people dancing they way they think people danced in the 1920s. In fact, the entire movie is full of 1960s people acting...   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on December 8, 2013

This time around, Motion Pictures Told Through Still Pictures with Goofy Captions brings you the 1961 opus "The George Raft Story." We open in a nightclub, with 1960s people dancing they way they think people danced in the 1920s. In fact, the entire movie is full of 1960s people acting...   read more

The Bogie Film Blog Posted by Bogart Fan on December 5, 2013

Birth Name:  George Ranft Birthdate: September 26, 1901 Number of Films that George Raft Made with Humphrey Bogart:  2 The Lowdown While Leslie Howard might have given Bogart a jumpstart on his film career by insisting on his casting in The Petrified Forest, George Raft could be given equal, althou   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on May 26, 2013

Have I mentioned that the 1960s was not the time to have a biopic about you made?  In doing this series, there’s been several actors throughout the fifties and sixties who have given away the rights to their life story, for various reasons, while they’re still alive.  All of them...   read more

Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on April 30, 2011

“Every Night at Eight” is a 1935 American comedy musical film by Paramount Pictures starring George Raft, Alice Faye, Patsy Kelly, and Frances Langford. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Walter Wanger from a screenplay by C. Graham Baker, Bert Hanlon and Gene Towne based o   read more