Rocco then forces Frank, who is a skilled seaman, to take him and his henchmen back to Cuba on the small hotel boat. Rocco's contact Ziggy arrives to buy a large amount of counterfeit money. Wade confronts and kills them both before leaving with Sawyer's body. Rocco goes outside and convinces Sheriff Wade that the Osceola brothers are responsible for Sawyer's death. Sheriff Wade returns looking for Deputy Sawyer, and discovers his body washed up by the storm on the hotel driveway. Temple invites Frank to live with them at the hotel, a prospect that intrigues Nora. Nora understands that Frank's heroism matches her husband's, who was killed around Monte Cassino in Italy. In contrast, Frank politely gives her the promised drink and ignores Rocco's slaps. Rocco shoots Sawyer, and Rocco's men take Sawyer's body out on a rowboat in the approaching storm to bury it at sea.Īs the storm rages outside, Rocco forces his former moll, Gaye, to sing for them but then demeans her. Frank declines to fight a duel with Rocco, stating his belief in self-preservation over heroics and that 'one Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for”. The gang discovers Deputy Sawyer looking about, and they capture him. Rocco is waiting for his Miami contacts to arrive to conclude a deal. They explain that the sixth, reclusive member of their party, is the notorious gangster Johnny Rocco – who was exiled to Cuba some years before. Soon after the police leave, the local Seminoles seek shelter at the hotel, among them the Osceola brothers.Īs the storm approaches, Curly, Ralph, Angel, and Toots pull guns and take the Temples and Frank hostage. They are searching for the Osceola brothers, a pair of fugitive American Indians. While preparing the hotel for the hurricane, the three are interrupted by Sheriff Ben Wade and his deputy Sawyer. Nora and her father-in-law seem taken with Frank, stating that George frequently mentioned Frank in his letters.

The visitors claim to be in the Florida Keys for fishing.įrank tells Nora and James about George's heroism under fire and shares some small and cherished details that George had spoken of. Because the winter vacation season has ended and a hurricane is approaching, the hotel has only six guests: dapper Toots, boorish Curly, stone-faced Ralph, servant Angel, attractive but aging alcoholic Gaye Dawn, and a sixth man who remains secluded in his room. He meets with the friend's widow Nora Temple, and his father James, who owns the hotel.

Plot Original release trailer of the film Key Largo (1948)Īrmy veteran Frank McCloud arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, visiting the family of George Temple, a friend who served under him and was killed in the Italian campaign several years before. Claire Trevor won the 1948 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of alcoholic former nightclub singer Gaye Dawn. Key Largo was the fourth and final film pairing of actors Bogart and Bacall, after To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Dark Passage (1947). The film was adapted by Richard Brooks and Huston from Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play of the same name. The supporting cast features Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. Key Largo is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G.

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