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High Sierra is a 1941 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh, written by William R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett, and starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Its plot follows career criminal Roy Earle who becomes involved in a jewel heist in a resort town in California's Sierra Nevada, along with young former taxi dancer Marie Garson (Lupino).
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Hollywood, partly inspired by its own early history, created and maintained the myth of California as a promised land which provided opportunities to people who couldn’t find a good life in other parts of the United States. One such individual is the main character in *High Sierra*, a 1941 film directed by Raoul Walsh, known as one of the earliest examples of the genre that would later become known as film noir. Tha…More
