After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
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A well meaning crack shot husband is pressured by his beautiful marksman wife to go on an interstate robbery spree, where he finds out just how depraved and deadly she really is.
In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.
Director:
Lewis Allen
Stars:
Frank Sinatra,
Sterling Hayden,
James Gleason
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Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.
Director:
Anatole Litvak
Stars:
Henry Fonda,
Barbara Bel Geddes,
Vincent Price
With his law-breaking lifestyle in the past, an ex-con, along with his family, attempt to start a new life, knowing a betrayed someone from the past is bound to see otherwise.
Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, where a tense siege ensues. But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with two women during the brief planning of the robbery. Written by
Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 17, 1944 with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino reprising their film roles. See more »
Goofs
In the chase scene on the mountain road at the end, Roy has to swerve to avoid hitting an oncoming car. This car suddenly disappears and the police that are in pursuit don't encounter it. See more »
Quotes
Roy Earle:
$500's okay with me. When I need help, I need it bad, and I'm willing to pay for it.
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"High Sierra" was the film that changed the course of Bogart's career and lifted him up to stardom
As Earle, Bogart was expanding on the criminal characterization he had already mastered in a dozen earlier films, giving it greater depth by adding contrasting elements of warmth and compassion to compensate the dominant violence
Bogart helps a clubfooted girl, Velma (Joan Leslie), who repays him only with disregard and indifference
Bogart's interpretation already showed signs of the special qualities that were to become an important part of his mystique in a few more films
Here, for the first time, was the human being outside society's laws who had his own private sense of loyalty, integrity, and honor Bogart's performance turns "High Sierra" into an elegiac film
As a film, "High Sierra" has other notable qualities, particularly Ida Lupino's strong and moving performance as Marie, the girl who brings out Roy Earle's more human emotions
The movie was remade as a Western, "Colorado Territory," with Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo, and as a crime film in "I Died a Thousand Times," with Jack Palance and Shelley Winters in the Bogart and Lupino roles Neither came up to the stylish treatment given "High Sierra" by director Raoul Walsh from an exceptionally good script by John Huston and W. R. Burnett
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"High Sierra" was the film that changed the course of Bogart's career and lifted him up to stardom
As Earle, Bogart was expanding on the criminal characterization he had already mastered in a dozen earlier films, giving it greater depth by adding contrasting elements of warmth and compassion to compensate the dominant violence
Bogart helps a clubfooted girl, Velma (Joan Leslie), who repays him only with disregard and indifference
Bogart's interpretation already showed signs of the special qualities that were to become an important part of his mystique in a few more films
Here, for the first time, was the human being outside society's laws who had his own private sense of loyalty, integrity, and honor Bogart's performance turns "High Sierra" into an elegiac film
As a film, "High Sierra" has other notable qualities, particularly Ida Lupino's strong and moving performance as Marie, the girl who brings out Roy Earle's more human emotions
The movie was remade as a Western, "Colorado Territory," with Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo, and as a crime film in "I Died a Thousand Times," with Jack Palance and Shelley Winters in the Bogart and Lupino roles Neither came up to the stylish treatment given "High Sierra" by director Raoul Walsh from an exceptionally good script by John Huston and W. R. Burnett