This movie really picks up when the heist happens. Humphrey Bogart gives another great performance, he is the reason to watch this movie. The script has some good ideas and it has a few slow moments. You should definitely check this film out if you are a fan of Humphrey Bogart.

Excellent caper flick with incredible tension and a great Bogey performance. Parts of it are pretty dated, though.

Really good film that started Bogart on the way to the top. Classic Warner Bros. Gangster movie.

Lupino's a bit over the top, but the nice surprise is Joan Leslie, to whom I guess I didn't pay much attention when I first saw this at age fifteen but wow. This is a flawed film; there is some over-acting pretty much on everyone's parts, but it is fun to watch and it has some really good moments. Score inflated for the Bogart factor.

An overrated Bogart vehicle where Bogart's questionable acting skills are apparent, utterly embarrassing both as a melodrama and in its silly heist scenes.

Bogart plays such a sympathetic character in this late great gangster flick. That of an angry man with a past, longing for a simple life of innocence; clinging to any good he can find. An awesomely heartfelt film with a lovely cast and spirited direction. "Marie!" Such a brilliant scene. Why couldn't you just stop drinking Mac? Damn you!

Tired old killer-on-the-loose theme receives an exciting rejuvenation from this superb cast aided by an excellent script and production.

Flawed but very enjoyable with Bogart being about as awesome as anyone can be. Ending is great and iconic but I wasn't crazy about the love subplots. An important film and obviously a stepping stone for many of my favorite gangster films. The car chases and the black character were hilariously bad/great.

average film-noir with good text.

Bogart is at his best. One of the finest of the Warner Bros. genre entries.

Awesome car chase for its time LOL

Bogart is in fine form, as is a young Ida Lupino. There's some wonderful touches, like the canine harbinger of doom, and the sweet girl showing signs of corruption. The air of melancholy is palpable, as aging Roy Earle is torn between two worlds. And some of the dialogue really pops. But it's still far from a perfect film. There's a few nice shots, but most of the photography is pretty bland. I also find it all a bit slow, although it's really more a character study than a crime drama.

Im sure this film was amazing when it was released in 1941 but i personally was expecting more. Still there is enough here to kep one interested. The story is a bit plotting at times.

Good story and good to great performances, everything else was a crapshoot.

bogey is bogey and there's never anything wrong with him, yet somehow i feel like there wasn't really anything to sink my teeth into. i felt like the first half was rather pointless and then when it gets to the last twenty minutes it was so predictable that every ounce of enjoyability is kind of just wrung out of it like an old sponge.

The first of the "outlaw with a heart" movies

This movie is fairly flawed, sometimes the acting is awkward (except Bogart who is brilliant) but it has a certain spirit that I cannot deny. Earle is outside of any moral characterisation, he's a criminal who does what he has to, but he is also loyal, honest and obviously has some kind of heart as far as outlaws go. But he is ultimately trapped, neither in this camp nor the other, and seeks to 'crash' (break free). Here's the beginnings of moral ambiguity in gangsta films.

A merely okay crime flick. Bogart is Bogart, and gives a fine performance. But the stupid romantic subplot, racial stereotyping, and so on, are pretty big marks against it.

One of the first of his kind. Watching Bogart pet a dog is cute as fuck.

Bogart and Lupino make something out of an otherwise mundane gangster script, but ultimately the film settles into "solidly good" territory and stays there all the way through. There's an undertone of comedy that doesn't mesh well with the rest of it but it's an enjoyable film.

Incredibly racist and sexist, High Sierra skates along on Bogart's performance and a couple effective action sequences.