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- "High Sierra" allows Bogart to play the romantic hero, doing it convincingly by letting him walk the line between charm and terror. While plotting the robbery, he pays for the surgery of young, disabled Velma (Joan Leslie), a good girl who couldn't be further from the criminal lifestyle.
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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.
Humphrey Bogart (Roy) and Joan Leslie (Velma) in "High Sierra" 1941 The greatest inconsistency in High Sierra comes from Roy’s own strange love interest, and attraction to the young girl Velma, played by Joan Leslie.
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
Apr 27, 2015 · One of the most memorable scenes in High Sierra takes place when Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) is driving towards Camp Shaw high in the mountains of California after being released from prison. The camera sweeps the Sierra peaks and pans down to Earle’s car as he pauses at the junction of the dirt road leading to his destination.
Sep 11, 2010 · Raoul Walsh’s extremely well directed and acted 1941 film noir is co-scripted by W.R. Burnett and John Huston, based on Burnett’s novel. Featuring Ida Lupino, who got star billing, and Humphrey Bogart in a career-making part, the movie was shot on location at Whitney Portal, close to Mount Whitney.
Oct 12, 2021 · The one-two punch of High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, released later the same year, transformed Bogart from a sulky foil—required to cringe and tremble in a showdown with James Cagney in The Roaring Twenties (1939), and play second banana to George Raft in They Drive by Night (1940), both also under Walsh’s direction—into the screen ...
''High Sierra' is a gangster adventure movie made in 1941, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis and Joan Leslie. The screenplay is by John Huston, based on W.R. Burnett's novel of the same name.
