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High Sierra (1941) 7.6
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. Director:Raoul Walsh |
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Cast
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Minna Gombell | ... |
Mrs. Baughmam
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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>
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He killed... and there on the crest of Sierra's highest crag... he must be killed! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
25 January 1941 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Entscheidung in der Sierra See more »Box Office
Budget:
$455,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
Written by Cole Porter
Played on a record at Velma's Home
Danced to by Joan Leslie and John Eldredge
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"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.See more »
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"Pard" as Portrayed By "Zero" See more »Soundtracks
"I Get a Kick out of You (1934)"(uncredited)
Written by Cole Porter
Played on a record at Velma's Home
Danced to by Joan Leslie and John Eldredge
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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…