High Sierra

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Cast

Ida Lupino

as Marie

Humphrey Bogart

as Roy Earle

Alan Curtis

as Babe

Arthur Kennedy

as Red

Joan Leslie

as Velma

Henry Travers

as Pa

Henry Hull

as 'Doc' Banton

Jerome Cowan

as Healy

Minna Gombell

as Mrs. Baughmam

Barton MacLane

as Jake Kranmer

Reviews

John Chard

Roy Earle, a man out of prison and out of his time. Thanks to a rather shifty pardon, Roy Earle Is released early from prison. A job is out here waiting to be done - maybe Roy's last one before finally finding love and straightening out? But Roy is finding out that this is a different world to th...

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