During the heated conversations, Frank is disturbed by the callous way Rocco treats his has-been nightclub singer lush mistress and finds enough courage to help her even though threatened with death and beatings. Also a severe hurricane is on the way that leaves Rocco stranded, as his skipper skips out on him with his cruiser. Tension mounts in the claustrophobic hotel setting as two local Indian brothers, Tom and John Osceola, escaped from jail for minor crimes and are hunted by the police. A cynical and disillusioned Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), who was her husband George’s commanding officer and good buddy during the WW11 Italian campaign, where he died in battle, visits for the first time to tell both personally about George’s last days and fills them in on how he contemplates a new career of running a fishing boat after knocking around with odd jobs the last few years. Living with Temple is his son’s still idealistically innocent war widow, Nora (Lauren Bacall), who has blocked out how unhappy she is by thinking she’s happy. Rocco and his moll Gaye Dawn (Claire Trevor) and gang of four, Curley Hoff (Thomas Gomez), Angel (Dan Seymour), Ralph Feeney (William Haade), and Toots (Harry Lewis), commandeer the wheel-chair bound cripple James Temple’s (Lionel Barrymore) seedy hotel, as they wait to cut their deal. Robinson plays a once big-time gangster named Johnny Rocco, during Prohibition, who was deported from the States 8 years ago and returns from Cuba to Key Largo to cut a deal with Miami mobster Ziggy over counterfeit money. The reworking of Muni’s role for Bogie, helped make the film a success.Įdward G.
Key Largo was adapted to the screen by Richard Brooks and Huston, and is a reworking from Maxwell Anderson’s unsuccessful 1939 Broadway play that starred Paul Muni. Robinson starred in his last major gangster portrayal. “Exciting crime thriller set in the Florida Keys during a late summer hurricane.”īogie’s old pal John Huston directs the final of the four times Bogie and Bacall played together in this exciting crime thriller set in the Florida Keys during a late summer hurricane. Robinson (Johnny Rocco), Lionel Barrymore (James Temple), Claire Trevor (Gaye Dawn), Thomas Gomez (Curley Hoff), Dan Seymour (Angel Garcia), William Haade (Ralph Feeney), Harry Lewis (Toots), Marc Lawrence (Ziggy), Monte Blue (Sheriff Ben Wade), Jay Silverheels (John Osceola), Rodd Redwing (Tom Osceola), John Rodney (Deputy Clyde Sawyer) Runtime: 101 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Jerry Wald Warner Brothers 1948) Freund editor: Rudi Fehr music: Max Steiner cast: Humphrey Bogart (Frank McCloud), Lauren Bacall (Nora Temple), Edward G.
(director/writer: John Huston screenwriter: Richard Brooks/from the play by Maxwell Anderson cinematographer: Karl W.
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