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High Sierra is a 1941 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh, written by William R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett, and starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Its plot follows a career criminal who becomes involved in a jewel heist in a resort town in California's Sierra Nevada, along with a young former taxi dancer ...
High Sierra: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy. 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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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Raoul Walsh
- 1941-01-25
May 6, 2023 · Famous bank-robber "Mad Dog" Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) is serving life in prison when he's suddenly pardoned. He travels cross-country to the Sierra Nevada mountains where he's informed he's to...
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Widely acknowledged as one of the gangster pictures that paved the way for the style and moral complexities of film noir, High Sierra (1941) is the story of Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, a crook sprung from prison to perform a crucial heist.
- Raoul Walsh, Irving Rapper, Russell Saunders
- Ida Lupino
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.
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Nov 8, 2021 · Directed with characteristic punch by Raoul Walsh—who makes the most of the vertiginous mountain location—Roy and Lupino’s Marie, a fellow outcast also desperate to escape her past, hurtle inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny.