High Sierra. 1941. USA. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. With Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy. 95 min.
Roy Earle has had just about enough of the criminal life, but he gets pulled back into one more heist. In 1941 New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, “Mr. Bogart, the last of the great gunmen…when, lodged on a high mountain crag with an army of coppers below, he shouts defiance at his tormentors ere his noble soul take flight. It’s truly magnificent, that’s all.”