HIgh Sierra / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; Jack L. Warner in charge of production ; a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; screen play by John Huston and W.R. Burnett ; directed by Raoul Walsh.
Edition:
Two-DVD special editon ; DVD edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
From a novel by W.R. Burnett. Full screen (1.37:1). Originally released as a motion picture in 1941. Special features: Colorado Territory, director Raoul Walsh's 1949 western remake of High Sierra; New conversation on Walsh between film programmer Dave Kehr and critic Farran Smith Nehme; The true adventures of Raoul Walsh, a 2019 documentary by Marilyn Ann Moss; Curtains for Roy Earle, a 2003 featurette on the making of High Sierra; Bogart: Here's looking at you, kid, a 1997 documentary aired on The South Bank Show; New interview with film and media historian Miriam J. Petty about actor Willie Best; New video essay featuring excerpts from a 1976 American Film Institute interview with novelist and screenwriter W.R. Burnett; Radio adaptation of High Sierra from 1944.. Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan, Minna Gombell, Barton MacLane, Donald MacBride, Willie Best.
Summary:
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band of thieves for one last heist in the Sierra Nevada. Directed with a 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, hurtling inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny.
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