High Sierra [DVD video]

2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12)

ISBN:

9781681438788

Abstract:

"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 a characteristic punch by Raoul Walsh--who makes the most of the vertiginous mountain location--this gripping thriller sends Roy and Lupino's Marie, a fellow outcast also desperate to escape her past, hurtling inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny"--Container.

General Note:

Full screen (1.37:1).

From a novel by W.R. Burnett.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1941.

Special features on disc one: 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; New video essay featuring excerpts from a 1976 American Film Institute interview with novelist and screenwriter W.R. Burnett; New interview with film and media historian Miriam J. Petty about actor Willie Best; Radio adaptation of High Sierra by the Screen Guild Theater from 1944; Trailer for High Sierra -- on disc two: Colorado Territory, director Raoul Walsh's 1949 western remake of High Sierra, starring Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone; The true adventures of Raoul Walsh, a 2019 documentary by Marilyn Ann Moss; New conversation on Walsh between film programmer Dave Kehr and critic Farran Smith Nehme; Trailer for Colorado Territory -- in booklet: Essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith.

Performers:

Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan, Minna Gombell, Barton MacLane, Donald MacBride, Willie Best.

Technical Details:

DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby monaural.

Personal Subject:

Burnett, W. R. (William Riley), 1899-1982-Film adaptations.

Subject Term:

Gangsters -- Drama.

Ex-convicts -- Drama.

Thieves -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Caper films.