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Summary: not up there with Casablanca
Review: nor the Big Sleep, but a pretty good movie. Bacall and Bogie seemed a little flat, but the rest of the cast made up for it. Edgar G. Robinson was great.
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Summary: Huston on the Keys.
Review: One last chance to see Robinson portray a kingpin crime boss. Its all authetic because the cast gets the most out of the Maxwell Anderson story. A Fine supporting cast includes' Mark Lawrence, Barrymore, Thomas Gomez, Dan Seymour and look fast for Jay Silverheels as one of the Osceola Bros,
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Summary: tension packed thriller
Review: set in steamy key largo, this movie is a tension packed thriller. awesome acting performances by bogart, bacall, robinson and barrymore. a must see for classic film lovers. I highly recommend this film.
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Summary: One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for!
Review: Somewhat enigmatically, the text only "Behind the Scenes" Special Feature on the KEY LARGO dvd tells us that director John Huston was so angry with producer Jerry Wald for forcing him to deal with the "delicacies" in Maxwell Anderson's stage play of the same name that he barred him from the set. What's more likely is that co-screenwriters Huston and Richard Brooks gutted Anderson's play of most everything but the title, took a few veiled swipes at the House Un-American Committee, and threw an incredible cast at it.
Claire Trevor won the Best Supporting Oscar for her role as a boozy, faded nightclub singer, but Edgar G. Robinson steals the show. He's simply wonderful as Johnny Rocco, an old gang lord (reportedly styled after real-life gangster Lucky Luciano) with happy dreams of returning to the old days - maybe they'll reinstate prohibition! Lionel Barrymore plays a crusty old hotel keeper, Lauren Bacall his daughter-in-law, and Humphrey Bogart is the ex-Army officer blown into town to tell the widowed Bacall, and Barrymore, about her late husband's heroic military career.
This was Bacall's third movie with Bogart, and they seem to fall in love by osmosis this time around. Bogart plays the disillusioned vet with quiet dignity, which works for the movie's sake but robs the audience of the opportunity to see any high sparks ignite between his and Robinson's character.
Ah well. We can't have everything. This is still a great movie, one of Bogart's most underrated gems.
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Summary: Excellent transfer, excellent drama
Review: The transfer to DVD is very well done. It's also a great showcase for Bogart's acting as he gets to play off the other heavyweight actors. The story line is also very obvious. Excellent direction. I think one of Bogarts best.
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Summary: Entertaining Gangster Melodrama!
Review: This film features great performances by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson is also very credible as Johnny Rocco, but it is Claire Trevor who steals the show as Rocco's boozy moll. Very stagy but suspenseful and entertaining. The ending is great. Directed by John Huston, but not in the same league as his 'Maltese Falcon' or 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre' but still well worth a look. From a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a 7!
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Summary: Classic 1940's filmmaking!
Review: This is an excellent film that stars Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore and Edward G. Robinson. Robinson plays the leader of a pack of gangsters who are holding a group of people hostage at a hotel while a hurricane ravages on. But that's nothing compared to the human drama unfolding inside. This is a great film to watch if you enjoy that good old Bogie/Bacall magic. It's also a great film if you like Lionel Barrymore (Grand Hotel, Dinner at Eight) or Edward G. Robinson. The pretty Claire Trevor also stars as a lush, a part she plays wonderfully! You don't have to like gangster films to be able to enjoy this classic!
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Summary: They DID Have It All....
Review: This is my favorite Bogie & Bacall movie. Maybe it's because I love the sensual mystery of the Keys so much, and, combined with a John Houston production, and two Hollywood screen and real life legends, it can't miss. The story of an old hotel being taken over by gangster Edward G. Robinson and his crew of lug-heads on the lam is filled with drama, intelligent dialogue, and just a wonderful inter-play between a classic group of actors. Bogie & Bacall exude chemistry, as always. Bogie has a few cracks, but he's still our hero ! And Lionel Barrymore is wonderful as the wheel chair bound, but still feisty hotel owner. Claire Trevor is great also as Robinsons drunken, has-been floozie, a role for which she won best supporting actress Oscar. This film is sometimes colorized, avoid that version, it MUST be seen in black and white, as should all those great films of the 1940's (Okay, excluding Betty Grables Technicolor extravaganzas). Being an old Hollywood freak, I tend to see more than is obvious to most when viewing a movie like this. But anyone who appreciates great acting and a timeless story will like this film. It also has one of my favorite endings , a classic Hollywood ending, for a classic film. LOVE it!!
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Summary: Edward G. Robinson Steals the Picture
Review: This is Robinson's bravura performance and he steals the show utterly from Bogie, who is outstanding but not shown to his best advantage here. Bogie has a more supporting role here, and Robinson's characterization of the nasty Johnny Rocco is one of the great villainous performance in screen history. How can anyone forget when Robinson sneers to Bogie, "Rocco wants more. Yeah, that's right, MORE!"The under-rated but always superb Lionel Barrymore gives a marvelous performance as Bacall's father-in-law. His scenes with Bogie and Robinson are all tour de force. Claire Trevor's pathetically drunken singing scene is touching, as she belts out a torch song just to get her drink refilled because Johnny Rocco promised her. At the conclusion of her song, she grabs for the bourbon, only to have Rocco take it from her. "But Johnny," she wails, "You promised!" Rocco sneers, "Too bad. You were lousy." The only slight criticism is Bacall, who gives a lackluster performance. Her character is not essential to the screeplay and one senses Huston just threw her onboard in order to be near Bogie. No matter, Barrymore and Robinson carry this picture, which is a deserved classic.
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Summary: An incredibly gripping drama!
Review: This movie is incredible! Throughout the whole thing, it seems to simmer and you can see all of the characters (especially Bogart) just waiting for that chance to blow. Fortunately, they get that chance at the end, and it's well worth the wait. This is an intense drama, and it definitely deserves to go down as one of Bogey's best.
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