High Sierra
1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, where a tense siege ensues. But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with two women during the brief planning of the robbery.
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ida Lupino · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy · Joan Leslie · Henry Hull · Henry Travers · Jerome Cowan · Minna Gombell · Barton MacLane · Elisabeth Risdon · Cornel Wilde · Donald MacBride · Paul Harvey · Isabel Jewell · Willie Best · Spencer Charters · George Meeker
Soundtrack Adolph Deutsch
Screenplay John Huston · W.R. Burnett
Cinematography Tony Gaudio
Original title High Sierra
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5K votes (FilmAffinity)
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