High Sierra (1941) is a highly successful Warner Brothers gangster film of special interest to film scholars, and aficionados. It represented a turning point in the nature of gangster film of the 1930s. It was the film that launched Humphrey Bogart to stardom.And it is representative of the concerted efforts of the very b est of Warners' talent of the era. In a period of serious reassessment of the American film, this revised shooting script, never before published, provides valuable primary data for that reassessment.

High Sierra (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series)

Arts & Photography

Huston, John

Burnett, W.R.

Gomery,Douglas

Performing Arts

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

A facsimile edition of the 1929 novel follows the rise and fall of gangster Rico Cesare Bandello, from his brief tenure as a power in the crime world, to his enforced flight from Chicago, to his violent end.

Little Caesar

Humor & Entertainment

Peary, Gerald

Faragoh, Francis Edwards

Movies

Goodbye Chicago: 1928, end of an era

St.Martin's Press

Ben Gann, an aging peace officer, receives unexpected help in facing Doc Sprigge, a gunfighter determined to take over the town of San Ygnacio

Bitter Ground

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ballantine Books

Walter Grein, Chief of Scouts for the U.S. Army, must face the Apache warrior Toriano and his followers in order to end the Apache war and make peace between the whites and the Indians

Adobe Walls

W.R. Burnett's The Asphalt Jungle unfolds in short, vivid bursts of atmosphere and character -- a tough and seemingly artless kind of American fiction that reaches out from another era. Yet the novel still slices to the bone in its depiction of the duplicity and corruption that undoes a group of ambitious crooks.

The Asphalt Jungle

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

William Morrow & Co.

The asphalt jungle,

Kaye & Ward

Asphalt Jungle

Thrillers & Suspense

IBooks

High Sierra (1941) is a highly successful Warner Brothers gangster film of special interest to film scholars, and aficionados. It represented a turning point in the nature of gangster film of the 1930s. It was the film that launched Humphrey Bogart to stardom. And it is representative of the concerted efforts of the very b est of Warners' talent of the era. In a period of serious reassessment of the American film, this revised shooting script, never before published, provides valuable primary data for that reassessment.

High Sierra

Kensington Pub. Corp

Set in the racketeering world of 1920s Chicago, this novel of corruption and violence depicts the rise and fall of Little Caesar, a ruthless Italian gangster

Carroll & Graf Pub.

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