KEY LARGO

The final film pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is a torrid noir chamber piece directed with sweltering, claustrophobic tension by John Huston. A hurricane swells outside, but it’s nothing compared to the storm brewing within the walls of the Hotel Largo in the Florida Keys. It’s there that sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holds hotel owner Nora Temple (Bacall) and her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) hostage at gunpoint—with world weary ex-GI Frank McCloud (Bogart) as perhaps the one man capable of standing up to him—all while the world blows away around them. You know it's gonna be something special if Bogey goes the whole film refusing a drink.