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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 ...
I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of High Sierra (1941), which was based upon a novel by W.R. Burnett and starred Humphrey Bogart as Earle. The same story had also been transformed into the Western Colorado Territory (1949), with Joel McCrea.
Bogart also received positive reviews for his performance as gangster Hugh "Baby Face" Martin in William Wyler's Dead End (1937). His breakthrough came in High Sierra (1941), and he catapulted to stardom as the lead in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films. [4]
Bogart rolls his eyes theatrically. At first he resists, then relents. "That has to be 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,' " he says of the 1948 film made by Bogart's good friend, director John ...
She worked with Walsh and Bogart again in High Sierra (1941), where she impressed critic Bosley Crowther in her role as an "adoring moll". [17] Her performance in The Hard Way (1943) won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. [6] She starred in Pillow to Post (1945), which was her only comedic leading role. [11]
Joan Leslie (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel; January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015) was an American actress and vaudevillian, who during the Hollywood Golden Age, appeared in such films as High Sierra (1941), Sergeant York (1941), and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
Younger audiences today might not have Humphrey Bogart's name on the tip of their tongue, but he was iconic enough to come in at No. 1 among the male actors on the American Film Institute's 1999 ...
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