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...Largo. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson & others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...another long stretch, a big time Capone-style badman has reappeared, and after several uncomfortable roles as farmer, professor, and sundry other sincere people, Edward G. Robinson has joyfully hoped into the gangster's shell to be Johnny Rocco, yah, Johnny Rocco, King of the Underworld. Throw in Humphrey Bogart and a fast moving plot, season with Lionel Barrymore, spice with Lauren Bacall and you have Key Largo, the best gangster show since High Sierra...
...Largo is the largest island in the hundred mile chain which ends at Key West, and to it comes a disillusioned veteran (Bogart) to visit his dead buddy's wife and father (Bacall and Barrymore). But the latter's hotel is already populated with a complete selection of mobsters including a boozy gunmoll and the triggerman with a comic book. Embittered Bogart is at first unwilling to do anything about Johnny Rocco and his cohorts, but Bacall renews his faith, and the gunmoll slips him a heater, so the whole affair is resolved in an cerie gun battle...
Robinson's performance is the movie's best--but not by much. There is fine work by all of the players--Bogart, Barrymore, even Bacall. Followers of Mrs. Bogart will be pleased to note that she has put on some well placed weight, and has given up trying to be sultry in un-sultry situations...