#1099: WALSH, Raoul: High Sierra (1941)
WALSH, Raoul (United States)
High Sierra [1941]
Spine #1099
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
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 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, hurtle inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny.
100 minutes
Black & White
Black & White
Monaural
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2021
Director/Writers
From a novel by W. R. Burnett.
Screenplay by John Huston and Burnett.
Raoul Walsh was 54 when he directed High Sierra.
Other Walsh films in the Collection:
#1208: The Roaring Twenties (1939)
#1208: The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Ten-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Commentary
None.
Director Walsh’s
1949 western remake of High Sierra, Colorado Territory.
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.
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Ten-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Commentary
None.
Director Walsh’s
1949 western remake of High Sierra, Colorado Territory.
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.
Video essay
Featuring excerpts from a 1976 American Film Institute interview with novelist and screenwriter Burnett.
Featuring excerpts from a 1976 American Film Institute interview with novelist and screenwriter Burnett.
Radio adaptation
Of High Sierra from 1944.
Of High Sierra from 1944.
Trailers
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