Key Largo

Name: Key Largo
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir
Released: July 31, 1948
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 74

1948

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: July 31, 1948 | Approved

Summary: A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 100 min

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Chloe Walker

Seventy-five years after its original release, Key Largo proves that there’s a timelessness to great acting, a visceral thrill to watching legends go toe-to-toe that doesn’t dull with age. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Maxwell Anderson's poetic-political play about crime and fascism, set in a "Petrified Forest"-style ensemble during a Key West hurricane, was turned by Huston and co-writer Richard Brooks into a crackling thriller. [27 Nov 1998, p.Q]

Empire Ian Nathan

Perfectly tense atmosphere and performances, with the sparks flying between Bogart and Bacall. Read full review

Maureen Lee Lenker

Key Largo is heaps of fun if you’re willing to go along for the ride, but perhaps slightly more silly than audiences might expect (or creators intend). Read full review

Dave Kehr

A little windy and rhetorical for my taste, but still one of John Huston’s best efforts (1948), a melodrama of ethics that soundly represses the Maxwell Anderson play it was based on (the ending is actually a lift from To Have and Have Not). Read full review

Josh Larsen

Key Largo belongs to its villain, through and through. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

The script prepared by Mr. Huston and Richard Brooks was too full of words and highly cross-purposed implications to give the action full chance. Read full review

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