

13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. The emotional storm inside the room reflects the physical storm outside.”įor the first six weeks of Key Largo‘s run at New York’s Strand Theatre, the Count Basie Orchestra with Billie Holiday performed before each screening in an arrangement then known as a “flesh-pic combo.” They did five 45-minute sets daily, and Holiday was paid $3,878 a week ($39,000 today). “The protagonists are involuntarily locked together, and something has to explode. The intelligent, exciting, theatrical, but moody, downbeat crime drama-thriller (and melodramatic film noir) was adapted from Maxwell Anderson's 1939 Broadway stage play by director John Huston and Richard Brooks. Robinson, and the stunning Lauren Bacall.

“It’s the classic doorless-room movie,” says Eric Lax, co-author of Bogart. Key Largo (1948) is one of the more entertaining crime-gangster melodramas from Warner Bros. 1948 1 hr 40 min 7.7 (42,133) Key Largo is a classic film noir masterpiece from 1948, starring the legendary Humphrey Bogart, the ever-villainous Edward G. Costume Design (Black-and-White) - Roger K. Set Decoration: Edwin Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish Cinematography (Black-and-White) Winner. Robinson) who has arrived to ride out the storm. Supporting Actress winner for Key Largo, with presenter Edmund Gwenn. Robinson, with aide Thomas Gomez), explaining why the thugs downstairs just pulled guns on Nora (Lauren Bacall), her Florida Keys innkeeper father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and their guest McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), the former C-O of their late husband and son, in Key Largo, 1948, screenplay by Huston and Richard Brooks from the Maxwell Anderson play. While an anonymous hurricane (giving storms names like Harvey and Irma didn’t begin until 1950) bears down on the island, the vet reluctantly realizes he’ll have to battle a gangster (Edward G. Director John Huston reveals Rocco (Edward G. 3 4 The film was adapted by Richard Brooks and Huston from Maxwell Anderson 's 1939 play of the. Directed by John Huston Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Jerry Wald. The supporting cast features Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. Ferrari begins production of sports cars, Cold War Beginnings between East and West. Robinson) holes upand holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank. (film) Key Largo is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. What Happened 75 years ago in 1947 Important News and Events, Key. The Hollywood Reporter called the John Huston film noir “a tense and vigorous drama that is inevitably headed for a leading position on Warners‘ list of top grossers this year.” (It took in $8.1 million domestic - $82 million today - and ranked 12th among all films in 1948.) Largo‘s plot centered on a World War II veteran (Humphrey Bogart, then 48) visiting a Florida Keys hotel run by an Army buddy’s widow (Lauren Bacall, then 23). There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G.
