Sadly Over-hyped

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

HIGH SIERRA is an adventure thriller and a great spectacle. I'm thrilled with the atmosphere and scenery. The story is a bit dark. The last scenes are probably among the best in the crime genre.Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle is a notorious robber who after leaving prison waiting for another job. However, it is simmering idea of freedom and peaceful life. The gangster has a good heart. Bogart was created for this role. In his character to break melancholy, hills, joy and disappointment. Ida Lupino as Marie Garson is a girl who can and who wants to keep track of gangsters. Money does not matter. She felt goodness. Marie is modest, devoted and naturally somewhat fatal girl.This gangster movie has all the elements. Speed, excitement and tension, and I would add irony and pity. The acting is solid. Bogart is top class. The film is at times realistic and nostalgic. Gangsters may die, but never surrender.

Bank-robber Roy Earle (Bogart) may be outside the law, but he's a lot more sympathetic than those functionaries carrying out the law. Of course, they get him in the end, just as the production code of the day said they must. In the meantime, however, we're treated to a zeitgeist glimpse of the Depression Era, as captured by screenwriters John Huston and W.R. Burnett. Together they underscore Earle's connection to ordinary folks, whether passing time with a dirt farmer, befriending a penniless crippled girl, or shooting the breeze with her folksy father. Clearly he's an extention of them, and when he 'breaks free' at movie's end, we know audiences of the day break free of their own oppressive conditions, if only for a moment. This is a milestone Bogart movie, the one that catapulted him onto the Hollywood A-list as the soft-hearted tough guy that would become his signature. Good as he is -- and looking like John Dillinger in a prison haircut -- I like Ida Lupino's soulful gun moll even better. Together, she and Sylvia Sydney defined the downtrodden, yet gutsy, lower class woman of the time. Here she clings to outlaw Earle and their ugly mutt like it's her last shot at life. And it probably is, the script discreetly implying she's been passed from man to man for years. So at film's end, when, ennobled by true love, her eyes uplift and a beatific glow calls forth, we know that a dignity is restored and a past transcended -- and the "High" in High Sierra comes to stand for a lot more than hard-scrabble mountaintop.

The movie mentions that the dog belonging to Earl is named "Pard". They seem to imply that it is a strange name. In "The Virginian" (1914), a silent film, they use "Pard" to mean "Partner". Since this is set in the West, it may have been a common term in the past. Sorry, I need 10 lines. There seems no way to avoid getting trapped on the big mountain. It also would seem that the girlfriend, played by Lupino, would be charged today with aiding a criminal. There are several ways that could phrased. It is a shame that the 2 leads did not appear together again. Being trapped up there with no food or water, and no warm clothes at altitude could have been fatal.

Notorious bank robber Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Humphrey Bogart) is released from prison and is asked by an old friend to help with a robbery. But Earle's not happy with the gang he's given or the woman (Ida Lupino) they've brought along. As they plan the robbery and wait, Earle makes friends with a poor family and takes an interest in their handicapped daughter (a very pretty Joan Leslie).Classic gangster picture from Warner Bros. and one of Bogart's best. This is the movie that convinced WB Bogie could be a bankable star. Later that same year he would star in The Maltese Falcon and the rest is movie history. Bogart is excellent, of course, as is Ida Lupino in one of her better roles. Nice support from Barton MacLane, Arthur Kennedy, Henry Hull, Cornel Wilde, Donald MacBride, and Henry Travers. Great direction, excellent location shooting. Climactic shootout between Earle and the cops is terrific. Essential for fans of WB gangster flicks.