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 Key Largo (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1948 / Director: John Huston / Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Edward ... more  Key Largo (DVD) ... G. Robinson ... / DVD released 01 June, 2006 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Black & White, PAL, Widescreen / John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) directed this smart thriller about a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) who holds a number of people hostage in a hotel on the Florida keys during a tropical storm. Humphrey Bogart is the returning war veteran who takes on the villains, and Lauren Bacall is on hand as one of the people on the wrong end of Robinson's gun. Somewhat similar in tone to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not (which also featured Bogart and Bacall), Key Largo is a moody movie which captures a certain despair offset by the bond between individuals united by common purpose. Claire Trevor won an Academy Award for her part as Robinson's alcoholic girlfriend. --Tom KeoghNewest Review: ... Nora (Lauren Bacall), the wife of the dead soldier. Arriving at the hotel he is surprised to find it closed and all but ... more ... empty, occupied only by a collection of men with a distinct city appearance and a like for the old alcohol. Among them is a woman named Gaye, existing in a constant drunken state, but she probably needs to be to be the mistress of the mysterious boss who stays in his room upstairs. Frank locates the old man and his daughter-in-law, who accept him into their household for the night. Now we've got the core cast list, we need the big event that pushes them together and challenges them in different ways, right?...more |
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Key Largo (DVD): A storm can't be stopped by a gun (875 words)
by Sputnik_257 - written on 18/11/01 (Very useful, 80 readings)
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By 1948 the name Humphrey Bogart had become well established, as he churned out film after film for his fosterparents, the Warner studios. It was all a question of "what would be the next Bogart?" But many movie-watchers equally paid to see Lauren Bacall. Another New Yorker to have moved West, she here co-stars in her fifth film with Bogart, and they again give an electric dual-performance -- they had married three years earlier, after meeting on screen, despite a twenty-five year age difference. Key Largo sees Bogart as the all-American hero again, smooth talking, calm and intelligent. This time he's a penniless drifter, stuck like so many ...
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