Key Largo
Summary:
Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida, there to meet Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), the wife of his dece... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart - (Frank McCloud)
Edward G. Robinson - (Johnny Rocco)
Monte Blue - (Sheriff Ben Wade)
Lauren Bacall - (Nora Temple)
Lionel Barrymore - (James Temple)
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Review:
John Huston's Key Largo shares crucial similarities and differences with Archie Mayo's The Petrified Forest, also starring Humphrey Bogart but made 12 years earlier. The two plots are similar -- a group of people held hostage in a remote locale by a gangster on the run -- but the differences between the two movies, and Bogart's ro... Continue >>
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