High Sierra (1941)

Directed by Raoul Walsh with a screenplay co-written by John Huston this film features the stereotypical aging ex-con Humphrey Bogart as Roy "Mad Dog" Earle who’s planning to pull one more big heist. Arthur Kennedy is part of the new gang; the beautiful Ida Lupino is also a co-conspirator who falls for Bogie. Along the way Bogart meets a young girl (Joan Leslie) who needs an operation also meeting her guardian grandfather (Henry Travers). He sees this as an opportunity to do some good and promises that he’ll help them though they don’t know who he is nor how he’ll get the money for it. The ending is classic! Jerome Cowan appears as a reporter.

Later remade as a Western Colorado Territory (1949) and a noir I Died a Thousand Times (1955).

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