Woohoo!

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Okay, so for the past two years, I've been trying to collect as many of Humphrey Bogart's movies on DVD as I can find, and for the most part, I've been pretty successful. I've got his major roles, with the exception of "The African Queen," which is rumored to have a 2005 US release date, but nothing firm yet. What's left is mostly his bit roles and 2nd billing parts.

Aside from "The African Queen," the movie I've been most anxiously awaiting on DVD was "The Petrified Forest," which was basically Bogart's first big Hollywood part. I guess he had been in some movies before that, but he didn't make his mark until "The Petrified Forest." That came out on 1/25, and I had been planning on picking that up, until I noticed that we aren't carrying it by itself at Best Buy. On a lark, I checked the box sets aisle after noticing that the movie was part of the Warner Bros. Gangsters Collection, and saw that we had one copy of the set in stock. The discount was quite agreeable, and the set had a couple of James Cagney movies in it (and Cagney was gonna be the next actor whose films I collect anyway), so I went ahead and bought it, expecting that it only had one of the Bogart films I still needed.

Come to find out, he was also in "Angels with Dirty Faces" and "The Roaring Twenties," which if I had been thinking, I would have known before I bought the set, but it was still a pleasant surprise to spend $40 thinking I was getting one Bogart movie, and end up getting three of his films instead.

So that's my "woohoo!" moment for the week.