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Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about High Sierra |
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After being released from prison, a thief is hired to rob a hotel. On the way out west he meets a handicapped girl and helps her get an operation. After the robbery, the thief's two partners are killed in a car accident, but the inside guy lives and squeals on the thief. The thief's jewelry fence dies and the thief is forced to stick around to wait for another fence. While at a motel the thief is recognized. He flees and the cops give chase. The cops chase him into the mountains. The thief climbs into the rocks and makes a stand, refusing to surrender. After a stand-off, a sharp shooter is able to draw a bead on the thief and take him out.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of High Sierra |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- very short/crewcut (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- falling off
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
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