Ex-Major Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) visits a Key Largo hotel run by James
Temple (Lionel Barrymore), the father of McCloud's World War II buddy, and his
daughter-in-law Nora (Lauren Bacall), the friend's widow, to pay his respects.
McCloud finds out that the visitors who are staying at the hotel, supposedly on
a fishing trip, are actually notorious fugitive gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward
G. Robinson) and his gang. The gangsters have crossed by boat from Cuba, where
Rocco is living in exile, to make a "delivery". Once Rocco's identity is revealed
by McCloud, the mobsters drop the pretense and take over the hotel, keeping McCloud,
Temple and Nora at bay with the threat of violence; meanwhile, a hurricane is
brewing up, heading in the direction of the Key.
(source)
Temple (Lionel Barrymore), the father of McCloud's World War II buddy, and his
daughter-in-law Nora (Lauren Bacall), the friend's widow, to pay his respects.
McCloud finds out that the visitors who are staying at the hotel, supposedly on
a fishing trip, are actually notorious fugitive gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward
G. Robinson) and his gang. The gangsters have crossed by boat from Cuba, where
Rocco is living in exile, to make a "delivery". Once Rocco's identity is revealed
by McCloud, the mobsters drop the pretense and take over the hotel, keeping McCloud,
Temple and Nora at bay with the threat of violence; meanwhile, a hurricane is
brewing up, heading in the direction of the Key.
(source)
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