key largo movie review

Today marks the 68th anniverary of Key Largos release in 1948In celebration we are revisiting our fond thoughts on the film as a definitive post-war marriage of noirish nihilism and tough guy. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco Edward G.

Movie Review Key Largo

With Humphrey Bogart Edward G.

. In Key Largo Bogart plays embittered disillusioned war veteran Frank McCloud who starts the film with nothing to live for and discovers in the course of fighting and killing old-time gangster Johnny Rocco Edward G. Robinson as a gangster with four thugs along with him. Everything about Key Largo seems perfect.

This is their last pairing. Key Largo 1948 is a great Bogie-Becall film. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Key Largo.

Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Key Largo near you. He has taken over the Largo Hotel owned by Lionel Barrymore. Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz.

Key Largo Remake of Drama by Anderson With Bogart and Robinson at Strand Send any friend a story As a subscriber you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The other interesting thing about this film is how the actors of the time even many of the stars would. The original theatrical trailer is included trumpeting the exclamations conspicuous to 1940s movie marketing Where Adventure Inflames Men To Violent ActionAnd Romance Smoulders In Women Until It Conquers Or It Kills.

With superb casting and performances a sharp and resonant screenplay John Hustons taut direction and Karl Freunds deep. Usually seen on late night TV still Key Largo continues to contain all the ingredients for a successful and accomplished film. Robinson Lauren Bacall Lionel Barrymore.

Robinson that there is a reason to remain engaged with the world and with his fellow human beings. As a hurricane approaches the two end up confronting each other. Today we are looking at another pairing of Bogie and Becall.

Robinson which I suppose makes sense considering his Johnny Rocco is a gangster who has commandeered a Florida hotel. Starring of course Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall this John Huston black-and-whiter is the story of Frank McCloud Bogart a down and out World War II vet who cant seem to make up his mind. Not only having a cast of great actors but this movie also.

Todays movie is the wonderful film Key Largo 1948. Robinson starred in his last major gangster portrayal. Based on the classic Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall film and earlier Maxwell Anderson play the world premiere of.

Review Date March 9th 2016 by David Krauss. 1 hr 41 min Tell us where you are Looking for movie tickets. Instead director John Huston hands the movie over to Edward G.

A missed opportunity perhaps but still an entertaining one. Robinson holding a group of people Humphrey Bogart Lionel Barrymore Lauren Bacall hostage in a hotel while a hurricane blows over. Those two generated sparks from the first of the four times they appeared together in To Have and Have Not.

Key Largo 1948 out of 4 Exciting fast paced drama from Warner has a gangster Edward G. Bogies old pal John Huston directs the final of the four times Bogie and Bacall played together in this exciting crime thriller set in the Florida Keys during a late summer hurricane. Key Largo doesnt actually do all that much with its most tantalizing elements.

In some respects this Bogie-Bacall collaboration their last one is a noir film and in another its a movie masquerading as one. Featuring a cast of villains a hurricane and an isolated Florida hotel this movie will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final shot. Andy Garcia in Key Largo Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse.

The difference between the two movies was the intercession of. Key Largo 1948 Bogey and Bacall. Army veteran Frank McCloud arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo Florida visiting the family of George Temple a friend who served under him and was killed in the Italian campaign several years before.

What can you say. A man visits his war buddys family hotel and finds a gangster running things. Its cynicism hides an optimism and can-do spirit.

Because the winter vacation season has ended and a hurricane is approaching. He meets with the friends widow Nora Temple and his father James who owns the hotel. Robinson holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple Lauren Bacall her invalid father-in-law Lionel Barrymore and ex-GI Frank.

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Directed by John Huston. Then we have Edward G.

In theaters soon Get notified by email as soon as tickets become available in your area. This might not be as legendary as Casablanca or as mind challenging as The Maltese Falcon but I still think this film holds up very well against. While visiting a run-down hotel in the Florida Keys run by a widow of a an old war buddy and her crippled father-in-law Frank McCloud slowly decides to take on local gangster.

A hurricane swells outside but its nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. Key Largo Key Largo directed by John Huston. ENTER CITY STATE OR ZIP CODE GO.

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