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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

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Unusual mix of gangster, big heist movie and romantic drama.

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07/17/09
Michael E. Grost
Michael E. Grost
Classic Film and Television
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Cole Smithey
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Remarkably, Walsh handles this potentially deadly material as if it were the most crackerjack of action pictures.

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10/29/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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06/26/05
Emanuel Levy
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Great Bogie crime film with an iconic ending.

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06/09/05
Rob Thomas
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05/14/04
Robin Clifford
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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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01/05/04
Mark Robison
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Reno Gazette-Journal

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12/24/03
Walter Chaw
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Film Freak Central

The Bogie and Lupino performances were razor sharp.

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11/29/03
Dennis Schwartz
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02/04/03
Shannon J. Harvey
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Sunday Times (Australia)

Wonderful with a tough, but poignant Bogart and loving, vulnerable Lupino. Still watchable today; the ending may bring a tear to your eye.

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