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With: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Marc Lawrence, Dan Seymour, Monte Blue, William Haade
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Written by: Richard Brooks, John Huston, based on a play by Maxwell Anderson
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Directed by: John Huston
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 100
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Date: 07/16/1948
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Rocco Road
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Continuing their fruitful partnership, and following up The Treasure of the Sierra Madre from earlier the same year, director John Huston and star Humphrey Bogart turned in this tense film noir. Compact, restless, and viciously tense, it's an early example of the "home invasion" genre, but enhanced by a stable of extraordinary character actors and a howling Florida storm. Huston and co-writer Richard Brooks utilize a moment of hesitation from Bogart's character to raise tension to breathless heights; who will make the next move, and how? Edward G. Robinson, Thomas Gomez, and Lionel Barrymore are all amazing, but it was Claire Trevor who won an Oscar, playing a drunken gangster's moll, horribly dependent on her sugar daddy. It's also the fourth and final film that the real-life couple, Bogart and Lauren Bacall, made together. They had an incredible chemistry together: comfortable, compatible, and tender.
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