High Sierra (film)
High Sierra is a 1941 early heist film and film noir written by W.R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett. The movie features Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart and was directed by Raoul Walsh on location at Whitney Portal, halfway up Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada of California.
An aged gangster, Big Mac Donald MacBride, is planning a robbery at a fashionable California resort hotel in Palm Springs. He wants the experienced Roy Earle Humphrey Bogart, just released from an eastern prison by a governors pardon, to lead the heist and to take charge of the operation.Roy drives across the country to a camp in the mountains to meet up with the three men who will assist him in the heist Louis Mendoza Cornel Wilde, who works as a clerk in the hotel, plus Red Arthur Kennedy and Babe Alan Curtis, who are already living at the camp. Babe has brought along a dancehall girl, Marie Ida Lupino. Roy wants to send Marie back to Los Angeles but, after some argument, she convinces Roy to let her stay. Roy also is adopted by a small dog called Pard. Marie falls in love with Roy as he plans and executes the robbery, but he does not reciprocate. ........
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