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Jul 31, 2016 · As a day in the life of post-war ex-Major Frank McCloud (Bogart), Key Largo opens on the disillusioned war hero visiting the family of a favorite soldier who died under his command.
Plot. Original release trailer of the film Key Largo (1948) Army veteran Frank McCloud arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, visiting the family of George Temple, a friend who served under him and was killed in the Italian campaign several years earlier.
Key Largo, American film noir, released in 1948, that is widely considered a classic of the genre. It was directed by John Huston, stars married actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and was loosely based on a 1939 play by Maxwell Anderson. Bogart played against type as Frank McCloud, a cynical.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Key Largo: Directed by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore. A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Huston
- 1948-07-31
Oct 13, 2013 · G ray is the prevailing, almost oppressive tone of John Huston’s Key Largo, made in 1948. In the opening, as Frank McCloud ([intlink id=”189″ type=”category”]Humphrey Bogart[/intlink]) rides the bus over the string of islands that forms the Keys, the shade of the Florida sky is an ominous gray.
Background. Key Largo (1948) is one of the more entertaining crime-gangster melodramas from Warner Bros. The intelligent, exciting, theatrical, but moody, downbeat crime drama-thriller (and melodramatic film noir) was adapted from Maxwell Anderson's 1939 Broadway stage play by director John Huston and Richard Brooks.
Feb 2, 2009 · Movie Review – Key Largo (1948) February 2, 2009. Principal Cast : Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour. Synopsis: A man visits his old friend’s hotel and finds a gangster running things.
