To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. The emotional storm inside the room reflects the physical storm outside.”įor the first six weeks of Key Largo‘s run at New York’s Strand Theatre, the Count Basie Orchestra with Billie Holiday performed before each screening in an arrangement then known as a “flesh-pic combo.” They did five 45-minute sets daily, and Holiday was paid $3,878 a week ($39,000 today). Visiting Key Largo to pay his respects to the family of his late war buddy, McCloud attempts to. “The protagonists are involuntarily locked together, and something has to explode. This classic film noir by John Huston stars Humphrey Bogart as World War II vet Frank McCloud. But the postwar world’s realities may have. The intelligent, exciting, theatrical, but moody, downbeat crime drama-thriller (and melodramatic film noir) was adapted from Maxwell Anderson's 1939 Broadway stage play by director John Huston and Richard Brooks. McCloud’s the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. Key Largo (1948) is one of the more entertaining crime-gangster melodramas from Warner Bros. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). “It’s the classic doorless-room movie,” says Eric Lax, co-author of Bogart. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) who has arrived to ride out the storm. Synopsis: Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in the war. Key Largo Movie (1948) Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore. Robinson, with aide Thomas Gomez), explaining why the thugs downstairs just pulled guns on Nora (Lauren. Director John Huston reveals Rocco (Edward G. It co-stars Lauren Bacall and was directed by John Huston. Robinson) during a hurricane in Key Largo (1948). While an anonymous hurricane (giving storms names like Harvey and Irma didn’t begin until 1950) bears down on the island, the vet reluctantly realizes he’ll have to battle a gangster (Edward G. Key Largo is a film directed by John Huston with Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Todd Haynes’s 2002 drama, the story of a 1957 Connecticut housewife (Julianne Moore) who is married to a closeted gay man (Dennis Quaid) and attracted to. A returning veteran (Humphrey Bogart) tangles with a ruthless gangster (Edward G. The Hollywood Reporter called the John Huston film noir “a tense and vigorous drama that is inevitably headed for a leading position on Warners‘ list of top grossers this year.” (It took in $8.1 million domestic - $82 million today - and ranked 12th among all films in 1948.) Largo‘s plot centered on a World War II veteran (Humphrey Bogart, then 48) visiting a Florida Keys hotel run by an Army buddy’s widow (Lauren Bacall, then 23). French poster for John Hustons 1948 crime film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G.
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