High Sierra /
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as...
| Uniform Title: | High Sierra (Motion picture) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2021]
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| Edition: | Two-Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
1099. |
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| Summary: | Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band of thieves for one last heist in the Sierra Nevada. Directed with a characteristic punch by Raoul Walsh who makes the most of the vertiginous mountain location Roy and Lupino's Marie, a fellow outcast also desperate to escape her past, hurtling inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny. |
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| Item Description: | From a novel by W.R. Burnett. Full screen (1.37:1). Originally released as a motion picture in 1941. Special features: Colorado Territory, director Raoul Walsh's 1949 western remake of High Sierra; New conversation on Walsh between film programmer Dave Kehr and critic Farran Smith Nehme; The true adventures of Raoul Walsh, a 2019 documentary by Marilyn Ann Moss; Curtains for Roy Earle, a 2003 featurette on the making of High Sierra; Bogart: Here's looking at you, kid, a 1997 documentary aired on The South Bank Show; New interview with film and media historian Miriam J. Petty about actor Willie Best; New video essay featuring excerpts from a 1976 American Film Institute interview with novelist and screenwriter W.R. Burnett; Radio adaptation of High Sierra from 1944; Essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.37:1); mono; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Tony Gaudio ; editor, Jack Killifer ; music, Adolph Deutsch. |
| ISBN: | 9781681438771 1681438771 |