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...frankly historical picture, High Sierra shows the last haunted days of "the last great gunman," after the other big shots are gone-"dead or in Alcatraz." The story is classical in its simplicity. Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), an aging desperado, sticks up a resort hotel in California and makes his getaway into the snow-topped Sierras. Hunted by a small army of policemen, he shoots his way out of one trap after another, is cornered at last, keeps shooting...
What makes High Sierra something more than a Grade B melodrama is its sensitive delineation of Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom...
...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
...Reno converged some 20,000 cinemaddicts in all stages of esthetic and convivial excitement. They came by car, bus, train, plane. Present were the Governors of five States, 50 movie stars, including Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Tom Mix, Mary Astor, May Robson, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy. Three special trains transported newshawks from Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles...
...Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart's shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney and Bogart both killed. In between are too many rounds of blank cartridges to count, a darkly ominous commentator who punctuates a morality play about the somewhat dated evils of rum-running, bootlegging, highjacking, speakeasies and Prohibition with warnings that after all, they may happen again...