High Sierra [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; producers, Hal B. Wallis & Mark Hellinger ; screenplay, John Huston and W.R. Burnett ; director, Raoul Walsh.
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Cornel Wilde. Videodisc release of the 1941 motion picture. From a novel by W.R. Burnett. Special features: Curtains for Roy Earle: The story of High Sierra; theatrical trailer; original theatrical trailer preceding the movie.
Summary:
"Prohibition era gangster Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) walks out of prison ... and into two unfamiliar worlds: the jitterbugging 1940s and the towering majesty of High Sierra. This fast-paced, heist-gone-wrong manhunt movie is also a fascinating study of a man time has passed by. Earle identifies more with the era's homeless Okies than the callow punks he leads on a disastrous hotel robbery. Then the teenager he loves (Joan Leslie) rejects him and only Marie (Ida Lupino), a weary '30s survivor like himself, remains loyal when cops close in"--Container.
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