AllDayTVWatcher Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Hi. I only happened to catch the tail end of this film, and I want to see it and/or buy it. He's driving up a mountain with heat on his tail. Not really sure what happens at the very end, but that's ll I have to go on. Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 High Sierra http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Yep AllDay, that was the movie which made Bogie a star. He was considered pretty much a supporting actor until this film hit the theaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 If one goes to Lone Pine California in the eastern Sierra there is a museum with the car Bogie was driving up Whitney Portal road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Bogie was driving a 1938 Plymouth coupe in *High Sierra* (although in a few early scenes in the film they used a 37 Plymouth, which looks very similar). And Bogie uses a similar Plymouth when playing Marlowe in *The Big Sleep* . *High Sierra* is my favorite Bogart film and that final chase scene was quite impressive filming for its day. I wonder if the museum car is the actual car from the movie, or a reasonable representation? I do want to get to Lone Pine someday, lots of movie history around there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Just get it, Allday. Like with just about ANY Bogart film, you won't be disappointed. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 My friend, who lives in Lone Pine (right off of Whitney Portal road), used to work at the museum and he said it was the original car. It is one of the key items the museum has according to him. He has taken me to many of the places films where shot. e.g. Gunga Din, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I can highly recommend the dvd of *High Sierra* . First, its a great film to watch multiple times or pass around to friends. And there is a very nice bonus feature on the making of the film included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I was reminded of HIGH SIERRA just today. I was walking into my local pharmacy, when I saw on the window the letters PARD, which happens to stand for Philadelphia Association of Retail Druggists. Of course, it was also the name of Roy Earle's dog in HIGH SIERRA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 In the early 1970's there was a show called "Banyon" about a private eye in the 1930's Hollywood. He was played by Robert Forster and sadly only last for half a season. It was a well done show co starring the great Joan Blondell. But if I remember correctly they promoted the fact that "Banyon" drove the same car Bogart used in "The Big Sleep"..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Yeah, I remember that series, Fred. Pretty good show, as I recall. (...hmmmm...Robert Forster..maybe he ought'a be mentioned in that "Who's Cool" thread goin' on now, eh?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 > Just get it, Allday. Like with just about ANY Bogart film, you won't be disappointed. Have fun with [*The Return of Doctor X*|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031851/]. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 How many people know that "Pard" was played by Bogart's own dog, named Zero? Funny, Bogie's pooch got in the film, but not his wife Mayo Methot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 > {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}How many people know that "Pard" was played by Bogart's own dog, named Zero? Funny, Bogie's pooch got in the film, but not his wife Mayo Methot. Well, YEAH Mr.R., THAT'S 'cause Raoul Walsh from the very beginning was supposedly "hot" for the "dog" bein' in the picture, but he wanted Bogie to "Hold the May........... (...NO!!! I CAN'T finish that!!!...THIS is even beneath ME!!!...but thanks for the set-up here anyway, Mr.R) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Bogie didn't want to work with a methot actor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 :^0 YEAH! Now THAT'S the joke I SHOULD HAVE gone for, VX!!! (...well, it's late...I'll use THAT as an excuse) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Since Mayo Methot regularly physically beat Bogart (there's a switch), that's no surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Yep finance. I guess some people never learn that it isn't very nice pickin' on people smaller in stature than themselves, huh! (...which, I suppose, makes it a very good thing for a certain movie star today that Mimi Rodgers, Nicole Kidman AND Katie Holmes have aways seemed so pleasant!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 They were known as "The Battling Bogarts" and he called her "Sluggy", that's what he named his boat also.She put a knife or scissor in his shoulder once. At a Hollywood party she showed Gloria Stuart a hand gun threatened to shoot him. But there is also speculation that she lit a fire under him and during their 7 year marriage of boozing and fights he did some of his best work from "High Sierra" to "The Maltese Falcon" to "Casablanca" to "To Have and Have Not"and became the movie star we know today. Was she responsible in a way for his move from supporting to leading man? Who knows, but this happened during their marriage. When he heard of her death in 1951 { the booze finally caught up with her } Bogart who was on location shooting "The African Queen" remarked "What a Waste"..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 If Mayo had been cast in *High Sierra* her and Bogie could have had a shoot out on Mount Whitney (think Jimmy Stewart and the end of *Winchester 73* ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Based on what I read Bogart really went out of his way to help her and try to make the marriage work. He meet her while making the movie Marked Women, which they were both in along with Bette Davis (the Davis return from exile in England movie). He did do some of his best work while married to her. Maybe it was because his home life just wasn't that fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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