High Sierra (1941)
High Sierra (1941)
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Cast & Crew.
Ida Lupino
Marie
Humphrey Bogart
Roy Earle
Alan Curtis
Babe
Arthur Kennedy
Red
Joan Leslie
Velma
Henry Travers
Pa
Henry Hull
'Doc' Banton
Jerome Cowan
Healy
Minna Gombell
Mrs. Baughmam
Barton MacLane
Jake Kranmer
Donald MacBride
Big Mac
Willie Best
Algernon
Elisabeth Risdon
Ma
Cornel Wilde
Louis Mendoza
Paul Harvey
Mr. Baughmam
Isabel Jewell
Blonde
Spencer Charters
Ed
George Meeker
Pfiffer
Robert Strange
Art
John Eldredge
Lon Preiser
Dorothy Appleby
Margie (uncredited)
Raoul Walsh
Director
W.R. Burnett
Screenplay / Novel
Adolph Deutsch
Original Music Composer
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Details.
Release DateJanuary 23, 1941
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Budget$455,000
Filming LocationsCalifornia, United States
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High Sierra is a 1941 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh, written by William R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett, and starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Its plot follows a career criminal who becomes involved in a jewel heist in a resort town in California's Sierra Nevada, along with a young former taxi dancer (Lupino).
Parts of the film were shot on location at Whitney Portal, halfway up Mount Whitney.
The screenplay was co-written by John Huston, Bogart's friend and drinking partner, adapted from the novel by William R. Burnett (also known for, among others, the novel Little Caesar and the script for Scarface). The film cemented a strong personal and professional connection between Bogart and Huston, and provided the breakthrough in Bogart's career, transforming him from supporting player to leading man. The film's success also led to a breakthrough for Huston, providing him with the leverage he needed to make the transition from screenwriter to director, which he made later that year with his adaptation of The Maltese Falcon (1941), starring Bogart.
The film contains extensive location shooting, especially in the climactic final scenes, as the authorities pursue Bogart's character, gangster Roy Earle, from Lone Pine to the foot of the mountains. The novel is also the basis of the western Colorado Territory (also directed by Walsh, starring Joel McCrea & Virginia Mayo) and the scene-by-scene remake I Died a Thousand Times (directed by Stuart Heisler with Jack Palance as Roy Earle and Shelley Winters as Marie).