Key Largo (1948) on Netflix
Frank McCloud arrives at the Largo Hotel to visit the family of George Temple, killed in Italy. Gangster Johnny Rocco holds the hotel owner, his widowed daughter-in-law, and Frank prisoner.
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Plot summary
Frank McCloud, an army veteran, travels to the Largo Hotel in Key Largo to visit Nora Temple, widow of a soldier who served under him, and her father-in-law James, the hotel's owner. Six guests have taken rooms, saying they are on a fishing trip. Sheriff Ben Wade and his deputy search the area for the fugitive Osceola brothers while a hurricane closes in, and local Seminole families come to the hotel for shelter. The guests are the gang of Johnny Rocco, a gangster exiled to Cuba who awaits his Miami contacts, and his men hold the Temples and Frank prisoner.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Key Largo (1948)
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- Claire Trevor, playing the alcoholic Gaye Dawn, assumed she would be lip-syncing to someone else's voice and kept pressing director Huston to rehearse her a cappella song; he put her off with "There's plenty of time", then one afternoon told her they would shoot it there and then, with no rehearsal.
- The hurricane exteriors were lifted from stock footage used in Night Unto Night, a Ronald Reagan melodrama Warner Bros. also produced in either 1948 or 1949, while the boat scenes were shot in the huge indoor water tank of Sound Stage 21. Filming took 78 days.
- The boat used by Johnny Rocco's gang to leave Key Largo, with Bogart's Frank at the helm, is named the Santana, which was also the name of Bogart's own 55-foot sailing yacht.
- Screenwriter Richard Brooks said he was sorry that Ted Turner had colorized his film and that he did not want to watch it; the colorized version was shown on WTBS in November 1988, right after a controversial colorized Casablanca.
