Key Largo Tuesday at the Napa Valley Opera House

If you are not doing anything on Tuesday night at 7pm, you could head on over to the Opera House and see the 1948 classic film Key Largo on the big screen. Directed by John Huston starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall and Claire Trevor, who won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role. 

Not to give too much away but the basic elements of the film are gangsters, a hotel in Key Largo and a fast approaching hurricane. Everyone is excellent but it really works, as is usual in this kind of film, because Edward G. Robinson is so good as Johnny Rocco, the villian.

This is another collaboration between director John Huston and Bogart that really stands the test of time along with The Maltese Falcon, Treasure Of The Sierra Madre and The African Queen. Like the Scorcese and DeNiro partnership there is a reason certain directors and actors keep working together for so long because the results are so good.

The attached trailer for the movie is great and is a first rate example of how they were done in the 1940s. Be warned however, if you watch it, the answer to the question about if Hollywood trailers have always given away too much of the movie the answer is yes, they did. It is nothing new. Unfortunately.