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High Sierra Edited, with an Introduction by Douglas Gomery Tino Balio, Series Editor Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series 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 best 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. Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series Tino Balio, series editor Douglas Gomery is Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Tino Balio, Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industryas well as the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

December 2005 LC: 79-003961 PN 192 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 10 illus. Paper $24.95 x ISBN 978-0-299-07934-5 ADD TO CART

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