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...recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II, comes to one of the Florida keys to see the widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour) and his wretched mistress (Claire Trevor). These interlopers are living ghosts of the 1920s, slipping back into the U.S. from Cuba. Barring the pathetic-mistress, who is half drowned in liquor, they are mortally dangerous people...
...Rocco," Huston says, "was supposed to represent a sort of evil flower of reaction. In other words we are headed for the same kind of world we had before, even down to the gang lords . . . There is great talk of the good old days and prohibition; in other words, return to the old order . . . I tried to make all the characters old-fashioned (the gangster's moll is out of the '20s), to brand them as familiar figures, and to suggest they were ready to take over again...
Also present were Orson Welles (currently in Rome filming Cagliostro and meeting Italian politicos in his spare time); three conservative Italian journalists who know Togliatti well; young Emmanuele Rocco, Communist Unita's brilliant political reporter...
...been AWOL from the Army for four months during the war. During that time, he picked up cigaret money-sometimes as little as $25-fighting in preliminary bouts. It took the Army a while to catch up with Rocky, perhaps because it was looking for a man named Rocco Barbella (his real name). Caught and court-martialed, Rocky was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and dishonorably discharged. His manager insists that the dishonorable discharge was "suspended" because Rocky behaved so well in jail...
...Rocco would not be wanting anyone. While his wife lay in a Manhattan hospital with her leg amputated, and Pearl remained in police custody, detectives combed the state for him. After five days they flushed him, crouching in a sleeping bag near a farmhouse in the Catskills. He opened fire with a German automatic. Moments later, Mr. Excitement was dead, with nine slugs...