Movies
High Sierra
Fitting capper to the cycle of Warner Brothers gangster films of the 1930s (the director, Raoul Walsh, would remake it eight years later as a Western), with Humphrey Bogart as a just-freed ex-convict (good haircut) who immediately resumes his life of crime, but in cahoots with hotheaded next-generation punks. A not-too-wide sentimental streak (the crippled girl, the loyal gun moll) enriches rather than sweetens. Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy, Cornel Wilde. 1941.
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MPAA Rating: NR
