Saturday 6 September 2014

High Sierra (1941 Raoul Walsh)

"Of all the fourteen carat saps, starting out on a caper with a woman and a dog."

Really good, fast moving crime drama from John Huston (a familiar Huston scenario), with W.R. Burnett (from his book). Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Curtis, Joan Leslie (the despicable Velma), Henry Travers. Does box itself into a corner plotwise near the end but features an impressive high speed car chase. Shot by Tony Gaudio and scored by Adolph Deutsch, for Warner Bros.

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