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- 1948
- TV-PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
- 1948
- TV-PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
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.
Directed By: John Huston
Written By: Richard Brooks, John Huston, Maxwell Anderson
- 1948
- TV-PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
- 1948
- TV-PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
Key Largo
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6.8
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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.
Directed By: John Huston
Written By: Richard Brooks, John Huston, Maxwell Anderson
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Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
74
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
74
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
By Chloe Walker FULL REVIEW
Although the characters are basically stereotypes, they are lent the gift of life by a superlative cast: Robinson as the truculent Little Caesar, Bogart as an embittered ex-Army officer, Bacall as the innocent who loves him, and above all Trevor as the gangster's disillusioned, drink-sodden moll.
By Staff (Not Credited) FULL REVIEW
Fans of the genre will enjoy the scene in which Robinson's moll sings Moanin' Low, about a woman trapped in a relationship with a cruel man. [06 Aug 2011, p.30]
By Staff (Not Credited)
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).
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).
What the play was supposed to be about -- which was dim enough in the original -- is even more obscure in the script that he and Richard Brooks (then a screenwriter) prepared, but the movie is so confidently and entertainingly directed that nobody is likely to complain.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.8
60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.8
60% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
40% Mixed
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2 Ratings
0% Negative
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Photoplay Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
