Greatest Classic Films: Bogart & Bacall Double Feature (1946) On DVD

Actor:           Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers
Director:      Howard Hawks, John Huston
Genre:           Drama
Year:            1946
Studio:         Turner Classic Movie
Length:        N/A
Released:   April 29, 2014
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:        DVD
Misc:            Black & White
Language:  English
Subtitles  :  N/A

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Both The Big Sleep (1946) and Key Largo (1948) were career high points for these two luminous stars of Hollywood's golden era. Playing Raymond Chandler's PI Philip Marlowe in the former, Bogart investigates the involvement of a society girl (Bacall) in the murder of a pornographer. In John Huston's riveting thriller Key Largo, the AFI's No. 1 film star of the 20th century tangles with a ruthless gangster (Edward G. Robinson) during a hurricane. Visiting Florida to visit Nora (Bacall), the wife of a friend who died in the war, returning veteran Frank (Bogey) finds that the hotel she runs with her father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) has been overtaken by Rocco (Robinson) and his gang of thugs. Claire Trevor won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her nuanced performance as Rocco's abused, alcoholic mistress. "Could [Chandler] have imagined a more perfect embodiment of his archetypal hero than Humphrey Bogart?... Hawks's movie is a film noir touchstone, and features one of Bogart's best good-man-in-a-tough-spot performances, alongside the irresistible Lauren Bacall."-Washington Post "Adapted from a stage play, [Key Largo] is an exercise in claustrophobic tension that is far superior to an overrated film like Hitchcock's 'Rope', for example."-BBC