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High Sierra [DVD] [1941] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Ida Lupino (Actor), Humphrey Bogart (Actor), Raoul Walsh (Director) | Format: DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie
  • Directors: Raoul Walsh
  • Writers: John Huston, W.R. Burnett
  • Producers: Hal B. Wallis, Mark Hellinger
  • Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Oct 2006
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000GIXLV6
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 219,466 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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This 1941 melodrama is memorable both for its strong central performances and their intimations of how the previous decade's crime dramas would evolve into film noir--no accident, given the solid direction of veteran Raoul Walsh and the hand of screenwriter John Huston, who teamed with the author of its novelistic source, WR Burnett (Little Caesar). In the central character of Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, a fictional peer to John Dillinger, Humphrey Bogart finds a defining role that anticipates the underlying fatalism and moral ambiguity visible in the career-making roles soon to follow, including Sam Spade in Huston's directorial debut, The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Earle suggests a prescient variation on the enraged sociopaths that were fixtures of the gangster melodramas that shaped Bogart's early screen image. Pardoned from a long prison stretch, the weary robber is clearly more eager to savour his new freedom than immediately swing back into action. But his early release has been engineered by a mobster who wants Earle to pull off a high-stakes burglary, setting in motion a plot that is a prototype for doomed heist capers--a small, yet potent sub-genre that would later include Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

What gives High Sierra its power, however, isn't the crime itself but Earle's collision with the younger, brasher confederates picked to help him, and the hard-edged but vulnerable taxi dancer they're competing for, played forcefully by Ida Lupino, who actually received top billing. Her attraction to the reluctant Earle is complicated by a convoluted sub-plot designed to showcase then starlet Joan Leslie, but the movie finally moves into its most gripping moments when the wounded Earle, pursued by police, flees ever higher toward the mountains. His final, suicidal showdown would become a clich&éacute; of sorts in lesser films, but here it provides a wrenching climax sealed by Lupino's vivid final scene. --Sam Sutherland

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The film that ignited Bogart's star 8 Mar 2002
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
Prior to making High Sierra, Bogart was typecast as a thug or gangster or in his own words, playing 'George Raft's brother-in-law'. With High Sierra his chance finally came to be the star of a film, rather than well down the cast list. This film demonstrates just how good an actor Bogart really was. He veers brilliantly from being ruthless, able to kill without batting an eyelid, to being sensitive, caring and generous, and back again.

The film speeds along at a good pace, taking in some incredible scenary on its way. There is something for everyone - romance, humour, car chases and a shootout. Thee is even a cute dog called 'Pard' (played by Bogart's own dog)if you like animal films!

Whilst not being Bogart's best film, this is certainly not far behind, and would make a good introduction to the films of the great man.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Heres looking at the greats Kid 6 July 2010
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Format:DVD
A clasic, Lupino Bogart and a hot script keep this tense gangster opera ticking to the fiery ending ok the hard bitten anti hereo with a soft spot for the inocent and fragile bit is now a film cliché at least as old at this film; but just view the film from within the context of when it was made anyway the fast paced action and Bogarts performance as well as some unsung but believable character acting from the arrey of supporting artists should hock you in Bogart dosent play any smart moves to the camera just works away at his craft like the seasoned pro that he was sultry Ida Lupino brings a tough but humane heart to the film ,much later she gave a brave unglamorous performance as Steve Mcqueen's mother in Peckinpah's underrated rodeo picture Junior Bonner(1972)she also cut a stride for herself as one of Hollywood's first female directors during the late forties early fifties.
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4.0 out of 5 stars High Sierra /One of Bogie,s finest 10 Nov 2003
By Rankin Cattan
Format:VHS Tape
The story of "Mad Dog Roy Earle" Bogart made this role his own Being in on a robbery organised by a dying mobster friend,which consequently goes wrong Roy Earle finds himself torn between the love he has for a crippled girl whom he tries to help,and his own hopless situation.When he is finally forced to quit the scene and run in company with a little stray dog "Pard"( who has a reputation for bring bad luck to any one he befriends,) and his lady friend played by Ida Lupino,the stage is set for the films tension filled ending on the freezing heights of the Sierra Nevada mountains .Watch and enjoy!
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