Detour (1946)/ Kid Galahad (1937)/ The Leech Woman (1960)/ Highway 301 (1950)/ Sunset Blvd (1950)/ The Killers (1946)/ 99 River Street (1953)/ Untamed Youth (1957)/ Strangers on a Train (1951)/ Bonnie & Clyde (1967)/ Babyface (1933)/ Reform School Girl (1957)/ The French Line (1953)/ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)/ The Easiest Way (1931)
"When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses." John Huston directed this film-noir masterpiece with an incredible cast which included the legendary Humphrey Bogart, Lionel Barrymore, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, and the fabulous Claire Trevor - who won an Oscar for her outstanding performance. The movie is set in Key Largo, where a hurricane is fast approaching, adding to the already-tense atmosphere inside the hotel. The sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco storms in and takes the hotel owner, James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud, hostage at gunpoint. Fun fact: When Claire Trevor asked John Huston for some insight into her character, he gave her a hilarious description of "a drunken dame whose elbows are always a little too big, voice a little too loud, and a little too polite. Very sad, very resigned." And to top it off, he even showed her how to embody the character by leaning on the
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