Hollywood goodfella: 100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52

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100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52 Nov 1st 2012, 14:56 Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra (1941-NR) by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow Before High Sierra, Hollywood's gangsters were not just black-and-white on celluloid; they were equally definitive in their morality—or, rather, immorality. There was nothing sympathetic about Paul Muni as Tony Camonte in Scarface and no doubt where James Cagney's Tom Powers stood in The Public Enemy. This movie, a star vehicle for Humphrey Bogart, helped change all that. Adapted by John Huston from a novel by W. R. Burnett, High Sierra depicts Bogart's character of Roy "Mad Dog" Earle as a bank robber and, yes, a killer. But there's another side to this career criminal—decency, compassion, a yearning to reform. We've since seen it dozens of times in more recent years, from young Michael Corleone's dream of taking the family legitimate to Jules Winnfield talking of giving up the life to walk the earth in Pulp Fiction. But it started here. Read Rest Here on California Literary Review Media files: af11 Bogart

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