High Sierra
High Sierra is a 1941 heist film and early film noir written by W.R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett. The film features Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and was directed by Raoul Walsh with location work shot at Whitney Portal, halfway up Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Plot
An aged gangster, Big Mac (Donald MacBride), is planning a robbery at a fashionable California resort hotel in the fictional resort town of Tropico Springs, California. He wants the experienced Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), whose release from an eastern prison by a governor's pardon he has arranged, to lead the heist and to take charge of the operation.
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| author | John Huston W. R. Burnett |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | California Palm Springs |
| director | Raoul Walsh |
| editor | Jack Killifer |
| events | organized crime |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | adopt capture car crash dragnet engage heart attack kill los angeles mad dog marksman plan resort hotel security guard sharpshooter spring warn young woman |
| musicBy | Adolph Deutsch |
| producer | Mark Hellinger |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| recordedAt | California |
| theme | film noir heist |