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                            High Sierra (1941)
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STARS...........: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
DIRECTOR........: Raoul Walsh
WRITERS.........: John Huston, W. R. Burnett
GENRE...........: Action, Adventure, Drama
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717
RUNTIME.........: 1h 39mn
SIZE............: 5.82 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-05-06


Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of ’40s 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, Roy 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—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.


Extras

• Curtains for Roy Earle, a 2003 featurette on the making of High Sierra.
• Bogart: Here’s Looking at You, Kid, a 1997 doc aired on The South Bank Show.
• New interview with film historian Miriam J. Petty about actor Willie Best.
• New video essay featuring a 1976 interview with screenwriter W.R. Burnett.
• Conversation on Walsh between film critics Dave Kehr and Farran Smith Nehme.
• Radio adaptation of High Sierra from 1944.
• The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh, a 2019 documentary by Marilyn Ann Moss
• Trailer