Word: bogarting
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...Brattle management has at last supplied us with conclusive proof that all the old Bogart movies are not great. The proof is High Sierra; it is a shuddering loser...
Even the adepts of the Bogart cult had best stay away from this one, for they will not enjoy seeing Bogie in so dismal an undertaking. The fault, to be sure, is not his; he is in good form, and gets in some good gunplay, first-rate pistol-whipping, and concludes with a chase in the grand manner through the California mountains...
...Bogart is further encumbered with an unfortunate supporting cast. They play a variety of mawkish roles, including a folksy old man from Ohio, a beautiful crippled waif, and the inevitable bad girl with the good heart. Ida Lupino, who plays the bad girl, might be described as a very square Laureen Bacall. She emotes...
Most of these people are involved in a robbery, with Bogart as the kingpin. The robbery succeeds, but once again crime does not turn out to be a blue-chip enterprise...
Miss Bacall, who in actuality was Mrs. Bogart and also Den-Mother of the Hombly Hills Rat Pack (a fraternal social order of which Mr. Bogart was Head Rat), is in the movie as beautiful and talented as she ever was and is. She rats on him on occasion, but, I can assure future viewers, in the end she is all right--with viewers and Bogey too. She is a nice kid who falls in with a bad crowd. In fact, the only thing seriously wanting here is a chase of some substantial dimension, and I feel it my duty...