Key Largo
Key Largo
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Humphrey Bogart goes to visit the widow of an old war buddy (played by Lauren Bacall), and finds himself in a confrontation with mobster Edward G. Robinson. With an Oscar-winning performance from Claire Trevor as Robinson's alcoholic girl, this classic suspense drama crackles with terrific dialogue. John Huston---USA---1948---101 mins.

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  | Lewis#4

This film began as a stage play by Maxwell Anderson, and much of its action, lasting a day and a night (a dark and stormy night), takes place in a single location, the interior of a Florida tourist lodge. (Of course the lodge, both interior and exterior, is a Hollywood set.) This establishment is run by a young war widow (Lauren Bacall) and her father (wheelchair-bound Lionel Barrymore), and it currently suffers from an infestation of gangsters led by a snarling Edward G. Robinson. He's a tough sadist who amuses himself by torturing his alcoholic “moll” (Claire Trevor, who garnered a supporting actress Oscar), but who happens also to be afraid of stormy weather. Robinson’s opposite number and the hero of this adventure is Humphrey Bogart, a man slow to act, but who eventually sets things right. The film belongs largely to these two powerful actors, facing off and sizing each other up. (Robinson’s delayed entrance, incidentally, recalls Bogart’s delayed entrance in “Petrified Forest” [1936], based on a play by that other Anderson, Sherwood.) This is an engaging film with a strong cast, and it gives good value for the money. It also marks, unless I’m mistaken, the last Bogart-Bacall collaboration.

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