Sep 26th  
Key Largo***   
(US 1948)
Warner Bros. 101m. bw

A soldier returns to a Florida hotel that was home to his friend killed in action, but soon finds the place held under siege by a notorious gangster.
Explosive melodrama with exceptional talents in not quite exceptional form, working as best they can with slightly cliched and one-dimensional material. The last of Robinson's dynamic tough guys.

Written by: Richard Brooks, John Huston, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson.
Producer: Jerry Wald.
Director: John Huston.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Marc Lawrence.
Photography: Karl Freund.
Music: Max Steiner.

KEY LARGO. After years of playing second fiddle to Edward G. Robinson (and James Cagney), Humphrey Bogart was more in the ascendancy in the post-war years with Lauren Bacall (and director John Huston), although Warners didn't give up some of their old traits: Robinson's name is slightly higher than Bogart's in the poster billing