Key Largo (film)
Key Largo is a 1948 film noir directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. The supporting cast features Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. The movie was adapted by Richard Brooks and Huston from Maxwell Andersons 1939 play of the same name, which played on Broadway for 105 performances in 1939 and 1940.
ExMajor Frank McCloud Humphrey Bogart arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, to visit the family of George Temple, a friend from the Army who had served under him and was killed in the Italian campaign. He meets with Georges widow Nora Temple Lauren Bacall and his father James Lionel Barrymore, who owns the hotel. Because the winter vacation season has ended and a major hurricane is approaching, the hotel has only six guests the dapper Toots Harry Lewis, the boorish Curly Thomas Gomez, stonefaced Ralph William Haade, servant Angel Dan Seymour, an attractive woman, Gaye Dawn Claire Trevor who suffers from alcoholism, and a sixth man who remains secluded in his room. They claim to have come to the Florida Keys for a fishing trip and have a charter boat waiting.Rebuffing Curlys attempts to engage him in conversation, Frank as planned meets with Nora and James Temple. He tells them where George is buried and recounts Georges heroism under fire. Nora seems taken with Frank, stating that George frequently mentioned Frank in his letters. Frank reveals to them the intimacy that is the experience of men in combat. They learn that George had told Frank personal and confidential details about the Temples father and daughterinlaw. And Frank had committed to memory the small and cherished details that George had spoken of, to relieve the boredom, stress, and stark terror that was the reality of their momenttomoment existence in combat. ........
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