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High Sierra [digital videodisc] / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screenplay by John Huston and W.R. Burnett ; directed by Raoul Walsh.

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[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]

Escapes -- California -- Drama.

Gangsters -- Drama.

Robbery -- California -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1099.

2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.

Two-DVD special edition.

Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also 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 checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band of thieves for one last heist in the Sierra Nevada. Directed with a characteristic punch by Raoul Walsh who makes the most of the vertiginous mountain location Roy and Lupino's Marie, a fellow outcast also desperate to escape her past, hurtling inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny.

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