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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 31 July, 1948 DVD Release : 25 July, 2006 |
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Key Largo (Keepcase) description 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 in 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), this moody movie 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 Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Edward G - a master |
| Just a note here to correct Steve Hellerstadt's review (from 2004, what can I say, I procrastinate); the Production Notes inform us that Huston was angered not by the need to adapt "delicacies" in Maxwell Anderson's play, but by what Huston felt were "deficiencies". Probably the fact that the original play was written and performed in blank verse may have gone some way to raising Huston's ire at the task in hand. As for the movie, it's a joy to watch again and again - and again. Anything Edward G Robinson did, ever, is sure to be an absolute masterclass in screen acting; not a wasted gesture, not a single inauthentic moment. | |
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