Friday, August 31, 2018, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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High Sierra (1941)
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High Sierra (1941)
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(Raoul Walsh, US 1941, 100 min., 35mm)
War, Myth, Desire. In order to take charge of a robbery at a resort casino in California, “Mad-Dog” Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) is sprung from prison and camps in the Sierras with the two men who will be working for him. Matters are complicated by the presence of Marie (Ida Lupino), a runaway with more sense and guts than her captors. Lacking the grimness of the film noir cycle it helped initiate, High Sierra portrays Roy and Marie as both criminals without a future and people with choices and needs very germane to us now.