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High Sierra is a 1941 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh, written by William R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett, and starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Its plot follows a career criminal who becomes involved in a jewel heist in a resort town in California's Sierra Nevada, along with a young former taxi dancer ...
Oct 3, 2021 · The 1941 Warner Brothers film High Sierra was a landmark in the careers of its stars, Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart—marking a transition from years of frustration to full-fledged stardom for both.
Because this movie made Humphrey Bogart a major star, re-releases billed him ahead of Ida Lupino.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Raoul Walsh
- 1941-01-25
Oct 12, 2021 · The one-two punch of High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, released later the same year, transformed Bogart from a sulky foil—required to cringe and tremble in a showdown with James Cagney in The Roaring Twenties (1939), and play second banana to George Raft in They Drive by Night (1940), both also under Walsh’s direction—into the screen ...
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Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierraalso contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checke...
The Criterion Collection presents Raoul Walsh’s High Sierraon Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. The film is presented on the first dual-layer disc of this two-disc set and features a brand-new 1080p/24hz high-definition encode sourced from a 4K restoration performed by The Criterion Collection. The film was released in multiple versio...
The film comes with a lossless PCM 1.0 monaural soundtrack. I thought it showed some admirable range and fidelity, if still a little limited. Music can sound a bit flat, but damage isn’t an issue at all and dialogue is still easy to hear.
Though I would have liked some info around the two versions of the film (which I wasn’t even aware of until I read the notes around the restoration) Criterion has put together a hell of a two-disc set for the title. On the first disc Criterion first pulls out an archival featurette created originally created by Warner for thei 2003 DVD edition. Cur...
Criterion’s stacked special edition for High Sierra delivers on all fronts, including several wonderful features—that includes Walsh’s own remake, Colorado Territory—and a sharp looking presentation. An edition any film lover should have no problem picking up. BUY AT:
Nov 25, 2022 · A shrewd actor like Bogart understood that Roy Earle, the protagonist of "High Sierra," was no ordinary gangster character. That might have been why he convinced Raft that he was.
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Oct 9, 2021 · The Pinnacle of ‘High Sierra’. Criterion releases Raoul Walsh’s gangster movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino, with enlightening supplemental material. A notorious desperado, Roy ...
