No one will be allowed to leave the premises until they finish their "business." They have waylaid theĭeputy and are now holding him prisoner in one of the guest rooms. Temple head inside the hotel where it quickly becomes apparent that the tough-looking "guests" are all criminals. Meanwhile the massive storm grows closer and closer. Nora that he and his brother are ready to give themselves over to the authorities. Sheriff Wade (Blue) and Deputy Sawyer (Rodney) had visited the hotel earlier searching for the fugitives. Among them are John and Tom Osceola (Silverheels and Redwing), brothers who recently escaped from prison. Soon a group of Seminole Indians arrives in small boats, seeking shelter. Temple before they must begin preparing for a huge storm which is coming their way. He can only visit briefly with Nora and Mr. McCloud arrives to find the hotel full of seedy, threatening characters. (Barrymore), and the widowed Nora Temple (Bacall). The hotel is operated by the father of the deceased, James Temple With superb casting and performances, a sharp and resonant screenplay, John Huston's taut direction and Karl Freund's deep-focus photography, KEY LARGO transcends the windy allegories of its theatrical origins to become a suspenseful and entertaining minor classic of 1940s Hollywood.īased on the play by Maxwell Anderson, Bogart stars as Frank McCloud, a disillusioned WW II veteran who travels to a run-down hotel in Key Largo, Florida, to pay his respects to the family of a buddy who was killed in the war.
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