![]() ![]() insisted that the movie be filmed on the studio sound stage and not on location to keep costs down, but Karl Freund's expressive use of the camera negates any impression of staginess. Karl Freund's black and white cinematography and the haunting music provided by Max Steiner wonderfully project the build up of tension between the main characters against the backdrop of the impending storm which seems to threaten the hotel both literally and figuratively. Both films are wonderful examples of director and actor working together at their artistic peak. The movie was the second pairing of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart in 1948, after 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre'. Sailing enthusiasts can find used yachts for sale anywhere, but would be hard pressed to find one with a history like the Santana. The Santana yacht was actually owned by several different actors before Bogart. The boat which Rocco's gang use to leave Key Largo, is the 'Santana', the same name as Bogart's own sailing yacht. lot, as Jack Warner did not want to repeat the costly location shooting of Huston's 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre' of the previous year, much of which had been shot in Mexico. The dilapidated hotel and the beach area where much of the action takes place were constructed on the Warner Bros. All the play's main characters had their names changed in the film version. Tempers begin to boil over within the confined space of the old building - linked only by a causeway to the mainland - and the conflict within the hotel is mirrored and accentuated by the late summer hurricane violence outside.Īlthough the script was adapted from the 1939 play by Maxwell Anderson, there are many changes, such as the gang being Mexican bandits, not mobsters and the Frank McCloud character is a disgraced deserter from the Second World War, not from the Spanish Civil War. (Key Largo is the largest of the remote coral islands in the Florida Keys.) Bogart, plays Frank McCloud who comes along to visit the father of a war time pal and of course, immediately gets involved in the action. The plot of the movie concerns a gang of hoods who have taken over a Key Largo hotel. Claire Trevor won the Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the gangster's alcoholic moll, Gaye Dawn. The movie did well at the box-office and was critically well received also. It was adapted from the stage play by Maxwell Anderson which ran on Broadway from 1939-40. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor. Neither estate is open to the public.' Key Largo' 'Key Largo' is a classic film noir made in 1948, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Montana’s own ‘Coral Gables’ estate is El Fureidis (‘Little Paradise’), 631 Para Grande Lane, a Mediterranean villa set in 10 acres of grounds, built for Waldron Gillespie, a wealthy upstate New Yorker, by Bertram Goodhue. Sosa’s ‘South American’ estate, where Omar ( F Murray Abraham) is ousted, is Casa Bienvenida, Park Lane at East Valley Road, a rococo Italianate villa designed by architect Addison Mizner for magnate Alfred E Dieterich. The movie’s two estates, one supposedly in ‘Bolivia’, one in ‘Florida’, are both in the town of Montecito, on the California coast a few miles east of Santa Barbara. The ‘Sun Ray Apartments’, where Montana’s brother is dismembered by chainsaw, has been revamped to become Johnny Rocket’s, 728 Ocean Drive between the Beacon and Colony hotels near 7th Street. Montana’s arrival in the art deco district of Miami Beach is impossible to fake, though, and was shot on Ocean Drive at 13th Street. Miami’s ‘Little Havana’ district, where Montana starts out working at the ‘El Paraiso’ lunch stand, was recreated at Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. The ‘Florida’ internment camp, where Montana wins his freedom by killing a Castro agent, was constructed under the knot of freeway interchanges at the intersection of I-10, the Santa Monica freeway, and I-110, the Harbor Freeway, downtown Los Angeles behind the New Los Angeles Convention Center. Set in Miami and Bolivia, the movie’s locations are mostly divided between Florida and California. Smalltime thug Tony Montana ( Al Pacino) grabs the opportunity to make it as a big-time drug lord. When Cuban leader Fidel Castro opened up the harbour at Mariel in May 1980 to allow 125,000 Cubans to join relatives in the US, he took the opportunity to export some of the country’s toughest criminals. Trashed on its first release, Brian de Palma's updating of the old gangster story – it's basically Richard III with coke, scripted by Oliver Stone – is now regarded as a classic. Another one of those movies where the critics got it totally wrong. ![]()
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