Key Largo (1948)

7.6	Listal rating
8	IMDB rating

Crime (7), Thriller (5), Film Noir (5), Gangster (5), Drama (4), 1940s (4), Film-noir (4), 300 Greatest Films (4), Classic (3), Black & White (3), Bogart (2), Mafia (2), Robinson (2), John Huston (2), Bacall (2), Lauren Bacall (1), Tropic Storm (1), (1), Gangsters (1), Humphrey Bogart (1)

Description

Army veteran Frank McCloud visits the family of an Army buddy who was killed in the war, only to find that their Key West hotel has been taken over by a bunch of exiled gangsters who are orchestrating their own comeback.

Directed by

John Huston

Starring (View all) :

Frank McCloud

Johnny Rocco

Nora Temple

James Temple

Gaye Dawn

Richard 'Curly' Hoff

Edward 'Toots' Bass

Deputy Clyde Sawyer

Ziggy

Angel Garcia

Written by (View all) :

Maxwell Anderson

(play)

Richard Brooks

(writer) and

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PvtCaboose91

Bogey + Bacall + Huston = masterpiece!

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago at Jul 13 2:26

"When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses." Key Largo marks another spellbinding on-screen collaboration of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. However, this film also marks a reunion of Bogey with famed director John Huston: a man who directed Bogey in such classic films as The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Combine the screen partnership of Bogey and Bacall with director John Huston...then further boast the acting talents of Edward G. Robinson among many others, and it's impossible to go wrong. Previously, Howard Hawks directed Bogey and Bacall in The Big Sleep as well as To Have and Have Not. With John Huston's Key Largo, this is a film much less sexy than Hawks' forerunners. Instead we have a heady thriller built aro...Read more

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