High Sierra

The Resource High Sierra
Label
High Sierra
Statement of responsibility
Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; Jack L. Warner in charge of production ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by John Huston and W.R. Burnett ; directed by Raoul Walsh
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  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band of thieves for one last heist in the Sierra Nevada. Directed with a characteristic punch by Raoul Walsh who makes the most of the vertiginous mountain location Roy and Lupino's Marie, a fellow outcast also desperate to escape her past, hurtling inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny
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TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Tony Gaudio ; editor, Jack Killifer ; music, Adolph Deutsch
Dewey number
791.43/72
Language note
English dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
LC call number
PN1997.2
LC item number
.H54 2021
PerformerNote
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan, Minna Gombell, Barton MacLane, Donald MacBride, Willie Best
Runtime
100
Series statement
Criterion collection
Series volume
1099
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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