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Key Largo |  | Director: John Huston
Actors: Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Monte Blue, Humphrey Bogart, Luther Crockett
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: $14.99
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Rating:  82 reviews
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
UPC: 085391922124
EAN: 0085391922124
ASIN: B000065MJD
Theatrical Release Date: 1948
Release Date: February 15, 2000
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John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) directed this smart thriller about a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) who holds a number of people hostage in a hotel in the Florida Keys during a tropical storm. Humphrey Bogart is the returning war veteran who takes on the villains, and Lauren Bacall is on hand as one of the people on the wrong end of Robinson's gun. Somewhat similar in tone to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not (which also featured Bogart and Bacall), this moody movie captures a certain despair offset by the bond between individuals united by common purpose. Claire Trevor won an Academy Award for her part as Robinson's alcoholic girlfriend. --Tom Keogh
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 Key Largo February 11, 2010
Michael Taylor (Indian Trail NC)
"Key Largo", starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Edward Robinson is an intense movie with the setting in a hotel in Key Largo FL during a hurricane. Robinson the mobster and his henchmen hold Bogart, Bacall, and Bacall's father-in-law at gunpoint during the storm. There are intense moments during the storm when Robinson threatens to shoot anyone who tries to cross him.
After the storm, Robinson and his men try to take a boat to Cuba and escape the law. Throughout the movie Bogart struggles with trying to be a hero while sorting out the struggles of being a man in a middle-age crisis. Additionally, Bogart is also struggling with being an ex-military man trying to transition into civilian life.
Does Bogart come through? Do Robinson and his men get away or do they meet their end? What of the hotel, Bacall, and her father-in-law? Watch the movie to find out!
Watch and enjoy.
Recommended.
Great cast January 25, 2010
J. Carey (oregon)
I am not a Bogie fan but this one is pretty good. Interesting story with a few twists and a lot of great 40s stars doing good work. I think this film is worth the price just to see Claire Trevor as the alcoholic girlfriend of the bad guy, played to the hilt by Eddie G Robinson, Trevor is fantastic and sad and pathetic and heroic. She won an Oscar for this role and it was deserved.
 Eddie Robinson at his best December 27, 2009
Peter T. Wolf (lake forest, ca United States)
Naturally the entire movie is terrific and John Huston was one heck of a director. But the outstanding performance in the movie is Edward G Robinson. Here he is at his malevolent, gangster best. I would love to know if his performance was part Huston or all Robinson because it's masterful. As gangster on the run Johnny Rocco ( a typical 30's and 40's movie mobster name), Robinson portrays him as rage barely under control, eyes flashing, and ready to lash out at the slightest provocation. The chemistry between him and Bogart is great as Boggie eyes him warily and intercedes to deflect Roco's explosive wrath from innocents Barrymore and Bacall. Or he attempts to calm Rocco by getting him to talk about his favorite subject: himself. Robinson should have won an Oscar for this movie.
Clare Trevor however did win and deservedly so as Rocco's long suffering girlfriend. Also excellent is Roco's henchman 'Curly' played by Thomas Gomez. This is without doubt one of the great film noir movies and in my opinion Huston's best.
Bogie, Bacall & Barrymore, Plus Robinson & Trevor. What A Cast. What A Movie. November 20, 2009
HAMLET
John Huston's "Key Largo" reunites him with his "Maltese Falcon" star Humphrey Bogart, and he assembles a star cast for this movie as well, in addition to Bogart: Lauren Bacall (Humphrey Bogart's real-life wife, and fresh off their successful pairings in "To Have And Have Not" & "The Big Sleep"), Edward G. Robinson ("Double Indemnity"), Claire Trevor and Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter in the Frank Capra classic "It's A Wonderful Life"). The score was written by the Academy Award winning composer of "Gone With The Win" and the equally stirring "Casablanca," Max Steiner. The writing is clever, and the tension well maintained. I love that these old movies had no graphic violence, no language and no sex. Now-a-days, you have gratuitous sex, language and graphic violence. THIS movie and all the films from the early days of cinema up to the mid 1960's are proof that you do not need sex, language or violence to be clever. Also, all the movies from Walt Disney Pictures are very clean. However, I digress.
This film is engaging from the get-go. Very well done movie. I highly recommend it. Not Rated.
7.5 - Thrilling August 14, 2009
Rube Goldfinger (savannah, GA)
Awesome film. Obviously inspired by films like "Casablanca", Bogey is an amoral man stuck in a dangerous setting. The cast is great, but Lauren Bacall really doesn't get much to do in this. The climax really had me on the edge of my seats. Classic suspense and clever plot twists. Anyone can enjoy this one.
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