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Some little wildcat. I knew one like you a long time ago. Scratched, kicked, bit. Regular hellion. She even stuck a knife in me once. Irish kid. Little and kind of skinny she was... but a real fireball. Her name was Maggie Mooney. But for professional reasons, l had to change it to Gaye Dawn. She was a knockout in those days.
Key Largo (1948) dir. John Huston
Lauren Bacall as Nora Temple in Key Largo (1948) dir. John Huston
— [Why don't you stay here with us?] — Have you any folks? — No. — [I'd be proud to have you regard us as your family.] — Maybe that isn't what Frank wants.
Key Largo (1948) dir. John Huston
Key Largo (1948) dir. John Huston
Key Largo (John Huston, 1948)
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, William Haade. Screenplay: Richard Brooks, John Huston, based on a play by Maxwell Anderson. Cinematography: Karl Freund. Art direction: Leo K. Kuter. Film editing: Rudi Fehr. Music: Max Steiner.
Key Largo was the fourth and last of the films that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together, but the movie was stolen by Claire Trevor, who won a supporting actress Oscar, and by Bogart’s old partner in Warner Bros. gangster movies, Edward G. Robinson. It’s a little too talky and stagy, partly because it was based on a 1939 Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson, a once-admired playwright whose specialty was blank-verse dramas. Huston and co-screenwriter Richard Brooks took great liberties with the play, changing the characters and the ending, and updating the action to the postwar era, but occasionally you can hear a bit of Anderson’s iambic pentameter in the dialogue. Bogart’s Frank McCloud was originally called King McCloud and was a deserter from the Spanish Civil War; in the movie he’s a World War II veteran, something of a hero, who comes to Key Largo to visit the father (Lionel Barrymore) and the widow (Bacall) of an army buddy who was killed in Italy. He finds them being held in the hotel they own by a group of gangsters, headed by Johnny Rocco (Robinson), a Prohibition-era mobster who is trying to sneak back into the States after being deported. As so often – cf. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943) and To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944) – the Bogart character is called on to make a choice between taking the kind of action he has renounced and remaining neutral. Bacall’s role is somewhat underwritten, and the relationship with Bogart is tepid in comparison with the films they made for Hawks, especially To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep (1946). Having to play opposite that scene-stealing old ham Barrymore doesn’t help much, either. But Trevor fully deserved her award as Rocco’s moll, an alcoholic club singer known as Gaye Dawn. She has a big moment when she’s forced by Rocco to sing “Moanin’ Low” on the promise that he’ll let her have a drink – which he then sadistically refuses her. As usual, Robinson is terrific, and also as usual, he failed to receive the Oscar nomination he deserved and was never granted. Karl Freund’s cinematography helps overcome the studio’s decision not to film on location.
Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall Key Largo (1948), directed by John Huston
