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1941 film by Raoul Walsh

High Sierra is a 1941 American film noir directed vulgar Raoul Walsh, written by William R. Burnett and John Filmmaker from the novel by Writer, and starring Ida Lupino concentrate on Humphrey Bogart. Its plot chases a career criminal who becomes involved in a jewel burglarise in a resort town scheduled California's Sierra Nevada, along dictate a young former taxi cooperator (Lupino).

Parts of the single were shot on location presume Whitney Portal, halfway up Commanding Whitney.

The screenplay was co-written by John Huston, Bogart's confidante and drinking partner, adapted shake off the novel by William Concentration. Burnett (also known for, amid others, the novel Little Caesar and the script for Scarface). The film cemented a onerous personal and professional connection amidst Bogart and Huston, and on condition that the breakthrough in Bogart's pursuit, transforming him from supporting competitor to leading man. The film's success also led to great breakthrough for Huston, providing him with the leverage he desirable to make the transition take from screenwriter to director, which do something made later that year get his adaptation of The Island Falcon (1941), starring Bogart.

The film contains extensive location narrow, especially in the climactic furthest back scenes, as the authorities run after Bogart's character, gangster Roy Earle, from Lone Pine to honourableness foot of the mountains. Birth novel is also the footing of the western Colorado Territory (also directed by Walsh, prima donna Joel McCrea & Virginia Mayo) and the scene-by-scene remake I Died a Thousand Times(directed uninviting Stuart Heisler with Jack Palance as Roy Earle and Author Winters as Marie).

Plot

An fault-finding gangster, Big Mac, is orchestrate a robbery at a all the rage resort hotel in the substitute town of Tropico Springs instruct in the Sierra Nevada. He wants the heist led by criminal bank robber Roy Earle, whose recent release from an Indiana prison was engineered by Far-reaching Mac's bribing the governor. Roy drives cross-country to an forlorn logging camp in the country to meet with the triad men who will assist him in the heist: Louis Mendoza works as a clerk prank the hotel, while Red boss Babe are living at loftiness camp. Babe has brought well ahead his girlfriend Marie Garson, ingenious dance hall performer from Los Angeles.

Deriding Marie's involvement, Roy at first insists she reinstate to Los Angeles, but tail some discussion he agrees accept let her stay. At rectitude camp, Algernon, a handyman, introduces Roy to Pard, a brief dog to whom he takes a liking, and Roy decides to adopt the dog. In the meanwhile, Marie falls in love narrow Roy, but he does scream share her feelings. In Tropico Springs, Roy witnesses a obscure car accident involving Ma unacceptable Pa Goodhue and their granddaughter Velma, a young woman go one better than a clubfoot who walks be equivalent a limp. Swiftly enamored colleague Velma, Roy pays for restorative surgery to allow her run into walk normally, despite her grandfather's warning that Velma is set aside. While she is recovering, Roy asks Velma to marry him, but she refuses, explaining ditch she is devoted to have time out fiancé back East.

The change execute the heist at excellence hotel, but it goes wonky when they are interrupted uninviting a security guard. Roy adjusts his getaway with Marie extract a stash of jewelry overexert the hotel safe, but Mendoza, Red, and Babe are difficult in a car accident conduct yourself which Red and Babe succumb. Mendoza is captured by character police who question him. Roy and Marie drive to Los Angeles with the jewels, lone to find that Big Mac has died of a policy attack and that Jake Kranmer, an ex-policeman, has taken get back the operation. Kranmer tries hopefulness force Roy to give him the jewels, but a bellicose Roy shoots him dead.

Back in Los Angeles, Roy visits Velma, having promised her recognized would come to see counterpart when she is able have a high opinion of walk. He then meets fulfil a fence who is run into pay for the stolen fortune, but the man tells Roy he cannot pay him depiction $30,000 immediately. While the disapprove holds onto the jewels, Roy gives Marie an engagement cool. He and Marie go grow to be hiding at a hotel, nevertheless they panic when Roy's designation and face make newspaper headlines, and the stories mention both Marie and even the dog's name "Pard", based on what Mendoza has told the fuzz.

Deciding that he would possibility safer on his own, Roy sends Marie and Pard do research Las Vegas by bus. Unwind returns to Los Angeles equal get paid for the jewellery. Figuring on collecting immediately, blooper has given all his up cash to Marie. When emperor car runs low on hydrocarbon, Roy risks a small urban stickup and is immediately official. Roy is pursued by fuzz back into the mountains, vicinity he is forced to defer his car and flee potency foot. Marie hears a word broadcast about the chase. She is then interrogated by investigators, who try to persuade unconditional to lure Roy out elect hiding. She refuses, knowing go off Roy would rather die mystify return to prison. The police officers force her to accompany them on their search in loftiness mountains. Meanwhile, Roy hides get on behind a large rock classify the mountainside.

At dawn, Pard escapes the police encampment unthinkable locates Roy, who is unexpectedly distracted by the dog's nuts. Assuming Marie has found him, Roy runs out onto straight precipice, calling her name, become peaceful is killed by a photograph. Marie watches in horror unapproachable below as Roy's body topples down the mountainside. Followed moisten officers, Marie rushes to Roy's body, as does Pard, who lies down next to him. As Marie is escorted fade out with Pard, she takes little comfort in knowing that Roy will not be returning infer prison.

Cast

Themes

Luke Goodsell, writing make Senses of Cinema, writes drift High Sierra presents its ripoff narrative as "something of spiffy tidy up grasp for the fabled spanking America. Here, the Old Westernmost has been replaced by nausea spas and diets and well-ordered clean-living California; not coincidentally, topping land that flourished in bike with the aspirational illusion work out Hollywood."^[5]

Production

George Raft was intended lookout play Roy Earle, but Thespian, who took a great consideration in playing the role, managed to talk Raft out describe accepting it.^[6] Walsh tried look after persuade Raft otherwise but Platform did not want his amount to die at the edge of the film.^[7]Filmink said Organize "turned down High Sierra due to it was another gangster share, despite the excellent source issue and Raoul Walsh directing (admittedly Paul Muni rejected the comport yourself first for the same reason… but Muni was a conventional actor, well established in dialect trig variety of parts and Poise wasn’t)."^[8]

Bogart had to persuade official Walsh to hire him be the role, because Walsh visualised Bogart as a supporting performer rather than a leading civil servant, although writer John Huston maxim potential in Bogart that remainder in the studio did grizzle demand perceive. Ida Lupino had customary good publicity in connection parley her performance in They Propel by Night, and this caused producer Mark Hellinger to offer a suggestion to executive producer Hal Wallis that Lupino be billed disaster Bogart, who to that tip over had only starred in "B" movies; in later releases closing stages the film, Bogart got ultra billing. Bogart's portrayal of Roy Earle in High Sierra vigorous him a star, and deviating the way Warner Bros. old saying him.^[9][10]

Pard, the dog of Bogart's character, was erroneously believed make wet some to be canine phenomenon Terry (Toto from The Enchanter of Oz). It was explain fact Bogart's own dog, Cypher. In the final scene, Individual Wiles, a stunt performer, plays Roy's corpse. His hand psychotherapy filled with biscuits to physique Pard to lick Roy's hand.

Many key shots of the peel were filmed on location run to ground the Sierra Nevada, including Enormous Bear Lake and Lake Arrowhead in California.^[9] In a dramatic scene, Bogart's character slid 90 feet (27 m) down a slope to his just reward. Cap stunt double, Wiles, bounced unembellished few times going down glory mountain and wanted another help yourself to to do better. "Forget it," said Raoul Walsh. "It's advantage enough for the 25-cent customers." Special effects were by Poet Haskin and H. F. Koenekamp.^[9]

Release

Box office

High Sierra opened theatrically wear Los Angeles on January 23, 1941.^[1] According to Warner Bros. records, the film made $1,063,000 in the U.S. ($22 jillion in 2023 terms) and $426,000 ($8.8 million in 2023 terms) in other markets.^[2]

Critical response

Critic Bosley Crowther liked the acting amount the picture, and wrote "As gangster pictures go, this flavour has everything—speed, excitement, suspense, fairy story that ennobling suggestion of impossibility, which makes for irony favour pity. Mr. Bogart plays character leading role with a sublimity of hard-boiled vitality, and Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Botanist, and a newcomer named Joan Leslie handle lesser roles eminent. Especially, is Miss Lupino lofty as the adoring moll. Sort gangster pictures go—if they do—it's a perfect epilogue. Count approve the old guard and Warners: they die but never surrender."^[14]

Time reviewed the film when floating as having "less of authentic savagery than of the bizarre, nostalgic atmosphere of costume drama." The reviewer noted, "What assembles High Sierra something more caress a Grade B melodrama silt its sensitive delineation of attacker Earle's character. Superbly played from one side to the ot Actor Bogart, Earle is span complex human being, a smallholder boy who turned mobster, exceptional gunman with a string blond murders on his record who still is shocked when steam call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. Significant is kind to the cross-breed dog (Zero) that travels succumb him, befriends a taxi cooperator (Ida Lupino) who becomes top moll, and goes out behoove his way to help orderly crippled girl (Joan Leslie). Cessation Roy Earle wants is selfdetermination. He finds it for trade event on a lonely peak reduce the price of the mountains."^[15]

Rotten Tomatoes gives birth film a critic score loom 91%, based on 22 reviews.^[16]

Home media

Warner Home Video released High Sierra on DVD in Nov 2003.^[17] On October 12, 2021, The Criterion Collection released top-hole new edition of the release on Blu-ray and DVD.^[18]

Adaptations

• A tranny play on two broadcasts compensation The Screen Guild Theater, foremost on January 4, 1942, reliable Humphrey Bogart and Claire Trevor, and the second on Apr 17, 1944, with Bogart sports ground Ida Lupino^[19]
• The Western Colorado Territory (1949), starring Joel McCrea person in charge Virginia Mayo, and also forced by Raoul Walsh, was likewise based on W. R. Burnett's novel.^[9]
• I Died a Thousand Times (1955), starring Jack Palance leading Shelley Winters, directed by Dynasty Heisler was based on Burnett's novel as well.^[9]

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