Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on High Sierra (1941)

High Sierra - (Original Trailer)

An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist in High Sierra (1941), directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Humphrey Bogart.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That Gun Reminds Me

Cornel Wilde (in his first credited role, as Mendoza, the inside man) with Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) and his gang (Arthur Kennedy, Alan Curtis, Ida Lupino), planning the job in Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That's Right, Blame The Dame

Returning to the hide-out from personal business, veteran robber Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) finds the dog and Marie (Ida Lupino) mistreated, and straightens out gang weaklings Red (Arthur Kennedy) and Babe (Alan Curtis), in Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Desperado

Opening sequence from Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941, introducing Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Humphrey Bogart, in his breakthrough role), from a script by W.R. Burnett and John Huston.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Mount Whitney

East of the Sierra, pardoned convict Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), using an assumed name as he prepares for a heist, has his first encounter with the Goodhues, Pa (Henry Travers), Velma (Joan Leslie) and Ma (Elizabeth Risdon), in Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That's Venus

Kind-hearted ex-con Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) getting to know Pa (Henry Travers) and young disabled Velma (Joan Leslie), whom he met by chance during their travels west, and who know nothing of his history, in High Sierra, 1941, from a scirpt by W.R. Burnett and John Huston.

High Sierra (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Think Nothing Of It

Traveling with Marie (Ida Lupino) after the almost-botched robbery, Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) visits Pa and Velma (Henry Travers, Joan Leslie), who still know nothing of his profession, though he paid for her operation, which is why she's now dancing, in Raoul Walsh's High Sierra, 1941.