High Sierra (1941)

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.......

An aged gangster Big Mac, played by Donald MacBride, is planning a robbery at a California resort in Palm Springs. He wants the experienced Roy Earle, played by Humphrey Bogart, to lead the heist and to take charge of the operation.Roy drives across the country to a camp in the mountains to meet up with the three men who will assist him in the heist; Louis Mendoza, Red, and Babe. Babe brought along a young woman by the name of Marie to the camp. And there is even an adopted dog, which was played by Bogart's own. The heist goes wrong when they are interrupted by a security guard and the chase is on.

     Cast

Ida Lupino as Marie
Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle
Alan Curtis as Babe
Arthur Kennedy as Red
Joan Leslie as Velma
Henry Hull as Doc Banton
Henry Travers as Pa
Jerome Cowan as Healy
Minna Gombell as Mrs. Baughmam

Donald MacBride as Big Mac

Directed by

Raoul Walsh

Trivia

The film was remade twice:

 Colorado Territory (1949)

Cast

Joel McCrea

Virginia Mayo

Directed by Raoul Walsh.

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Cast

Jack Palance

Shelley Winters

Directed by Stuart Heisler.