High Sierra
1939  NR  DRAMA  1h 40min
CAST— Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Barton MacLane, Jerome Cowan, Cornel Wilde, Donald MacBride, John Eldredge, Isabel Jewell, Willie Best
MUSIC— Adolph Deutsch  DIRECTOR— Raoul Walsh  BASED ON— High Sierra (story), by W. R. Burnett

     A star is born! Although Humphrey Bogart had been in several films prior to High Sierra, it was this performance that made his a household name. He plays a recently released convict who is anything but rehabilitated. As soon as he hits the streets he sets a scheme in motion to pull one last heist. But along the way he falls for a shy young woman with an unfortunate infirmity. While living the life of the notorious criminal he leads a double life charming the young beauty and her family. But things never go exactly according to plan, now do they? Though receiving only second billing Bogart is clearly the star of this picture… besides Zero, of course.
OUR RATING— ** ½
REMADE AS— Colorado Territory (1949), I Died a Thousand Times (1955)