Beat the Devil

Grab-bag of international crooks and swindlers all trying to double cross and outwit each other in a money hunt. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, and Peter Lorre.

Billy Dannreuther (Humphrey Bogart) is a formerly-wealthy American who has fallen on hard times. He is reluctantly working with four crooks: Peterson (Robert Morley), Julius O'Hara (Peter Lorre), Major Jack Ross (Ivor Barnard) and Ravello (Marco Tulli) They are trying to acquire uranium-rich land in British East Africa. Billy suspects that Major Ross murdered a British Colonial officer, who threatened to expose their plan. Peterson orders Major Ross to kill Harry, but Billy thwarts the murder attempt. The ship's engine malfunctions and