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High Sierra (1941)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:15
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A seminal gangster film that focused attention on Bogart and writer Huston. Bogart plays a violent criminal just released from prison who knows he's got just one more job in him. An aging gang boss... A seminal gangster film that focused attention on Bogart and writer Huston. Bogart plays a violent criminal just released from prison who knows he's got just one more job in him. An aging gang boss wants Bogart to lead a jewel heist at a resort. When he sees the inexperienced men he'll be leading (and fends off the attentions of Lupino, the girlfriend of one of the thugs), Bogart suspects there will be trouble and there is when a cop is killed during the robbery. A manhunt drives Bogart to the highest peak in the High Sierras where he awaits death at the hands of the police. A gripping portrait of a desperate outlaw and a breakthrough for its creators. [More]
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Barton MacLane, Henry Travers, Elisabeth Risdon, Cornel Wilde, Minna Gombell, Paul Harvey, Donald MacBride, Ted Smith
Director: Raoul Walsh
Director: Raoul Walsh
Story: W.R. Burnett
Producer: Mark Hellinger
Composer: Adolph Deutsch
Reviews for High Sierra
Remarkably, Walsh handles this potentially deadly material as if it were the most crackerjack of action pictures.
Wonderful with a tough, but poignant Bogart and loving, vulnerable Lupino. Still watchable today; the ending may bring a tear to your eye.
If you like old black-and-white gangster movies where someone invariably yells “Come and get me, coppers!” you’ll enjoy this.
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