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13 June 1942 (USA) moreTagline:
THE BIG SHOT RETURNS! Up From The Gutter To Make Gangland Shudder!Plot:
Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Bogart Makes It Worthwhile moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Humphrey Bogart | ... | Joseph 'Duke' Berne |
 | Irene Manning | ... | Lorna Fleming |
| Richard Travis | ... | George Anderson |
| Susan Peters | ... | Ruth Carter |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Martin T. Fleming, Attorney |
| Minor Watson | ... | Warden George Booth |
| Chick Chandler | ... | Frank 'Dancer' Smith |
| Joe Downing | ... | Frenchy (as Joseph Downing) |
| Howard Da Silva | ... | Sandor |
| Murray Alper | ... | Quinto, a Convict |
| Roland Drew | ... | Faye |
| John Ridgely | ... | Tim |
| Joe King | ... | Prosecutor Toohey (as Joseph King) |
| John Hamilton | ... | Judge |
| Virginia Brissac | ... | Mrs. Booth |
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The Big Shot is a decent crime picture, reminiscent in theme to the previous year's High Sierra, which also featured Humphrey Bogart. Director Lewis Seiler was no Raoul Walsh but handles the familiar plot about the doomed criminal nicely, giving it shadings of atmosphere, urban and rural. The movie is one of the last flowerings of the second major wave of gangster pictures, of which it is a late example. Bogart is excellent, yet one can sense the genre running out of steam despite his performance and the nice pace of the film. There were more pressing issues at hand by the time the movie was made, such as a world war with Germany and Japan, as overall the activity of the criminals in the movie seem small potatoes compared to what was going on elsewhere, in Europe and in the Pacific.