High Sierra

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Videodisc release of the 1941 motion picture.
From a novel by W.R. Burnett.
Special features: Curtains for Roy Earle: The story of High Sierra; theatrical trailer; original theatrical trailer preceding the movie.
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Cornel Wilde.
"Prohibition era gangster Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) walks out of prison ... and into two unfamiliar worlds: the jitterbugging 1940s and the towering majesty of High Sierra. This fast-paced, heist-gone-wrong manhunt movie is also a fascinating study of a man time has passed by. Earle identifies more with the era's homeless Okies than the callow punks he leads on a disastrous hotel robbery. Then the teenager he loves (Joan Leslie) rejects him and only Marie (Ida Lupino), a weary '30s survivor like himself, remains loyal when cops close in"--Container.
DVD.
Contents: High Sierra.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

more character-driven than you might think submitted by lisa on August 26, 2015, 3:31pm Roy Earle is a more finely drawn character than it looks like he'll be, at the opening of this one, when he's fresh out of prison. When he hits the road west, he starts to turn into a human being we can identify with. What sentimental blindness he has for an appealing (so long as he gets her deformity fixed) girl eventually goes, along with the rest of his delusions. It's almost an anti-climax, after that, when he's pursued into the mountains at the end of the film.

Also I heart Ida Lupino, I'll just say it.