Editing Humphrey Bogart (section)

==== Santana Productions ====
Bogart created his film company, [[Santana Productions]] (named after his yacht and the cabin cruiser in ''Key Largo''), in 1948.<ref name=Meyers_p236>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=236.}}</ref> The right to create his own company had left Jack Warner furious, fearful that other stars would do the same and further erode the major studios' power. In addition to pressure from freelancing actors such as Bogart, [[James Stewart]], and [[Henry Fonda]], they were beginning to buckle from the impact of television and the enforcement of antitrust laws which broke up theater chains.<ref name=Meyers_p235>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=235.}}</ref> Bogart's new contract with Warners had required him to make one film a year for Warners but he only made ''[[Chain Lightning (1950 film)|Chain Lightning]]'' (1950) and ''[[The Enforcer (1951 film)|The Enforcer]]'' (1951) for them during the contract period. In 1953, his contract with Warners was dissolved by mutual consent.<ref name=liberate/>

[[File:LonelyPlaceTrailer.jpg|thumb|left|upright|With [[Gloria Grahame]] in ''In a Lonely Place'' (1950)]]
Except for ''[[Beat the Devil (film)|Beat the Devil]]'' <!--First screened/released in London in late November 1953, released in the US the following March. -->(1953), originally distributed in the United States by [[United Artists]],<ref name="AFIBTD">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/51130-BEAT-THE-DEVIL?sid=e46c0fc6-7896-4332-b3ad-85c64c0f0e7b&sr=3.200943&cp=1&pos=0|title=''Beat the Devil'' (1954)|work=AFI Film Catalog|access-date=January 2, 2019}}</ref> the company released its films through [[Columbia Pictures]]; Columbia re-released ''Beat the Devil'' a decade later.<ref name="AFIBTD" /> In quick succession, Bogart starred in ''[[Knock on Any Door]]'' (1949), ''[[Tokyo Joe (film)|Tokyo Joe]]'' (1949), ''[[In a Lonely Place]]'' (1950), and ''[[Sirocco (film)|Sirocco]]'' (1951). Santana also made two films without him: ''[[And Baby Makes Three]]'' (1949) and ''[[The Family Secret (1951 film)|The Family Secret]]'' (1951).

Although most lost money at the box office (ultimately forcing Santana's sale), at least two retain a reputation; ''In a Lonely Place'' is considered a film-noir high point. Bogart plays Dixon Steele, an embittered writer with a violent reputation who is the primary suspect in the murder of a young woman and falls in love with failed actress Laurel Gray ([[Gloria Grahame]]).<ref>{{cite news|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/05/18/archives/the-screen-three-films-make-their-bows-humphrey-bogart-movie-in-a.html|title=Three Films Make Their Bows; Humphrey Bogart Movie, ''In a Lonely Place,'' at Paramount –Import at Trans-Lux ''Annie Get Your Gun,'' Starring Betty Hutton, Is Presented at Loew's State Theatre|work=The New York Times|date=May 18, 1950|access-date=April 14, 2019}}</ref> Several Bogart biographers, and actress-writer Louise Brooks, have felt that this role is closest to the real Bogart. According to Brooks, the film "gave him a role that he could play with complexity, because the film character's pride in his art, his selfishness, drunkenness, lack of energy stabbed with lightning strokes of violence were shared by the real Bogart". The character mimics some of Bogart's personal habits, twice ordering the actor's favorite meal (ham and eggs).<ref name=Meyers_p240-241>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|pp=240–241.}}</ref>

A parody of sorts of ''The Maltese Falcon'', ''Beat the Devil'' was the final film for Bogart and [[John Huston]]. Co-written by [[Truman Capote]], the eccentrically filmed story follows an amoral group of rogues, one of whom was portrayed by [[Peter Lorre]], chasing an unattainable treasure.<ref>Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 471.</ref> Bogart sold his interest in Santana to Columbia for over $1&nbsp;million in 1955.<ref name=Meyers_p243>{{Harvnb|Meyers|1997|p=243.}}</ref>