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* RuleOfSymbolism: After Nora [[spoiler:gets the news Frank's alive and Rocco is dead]], she opens the windows to the hotel and light comes in.
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* SurvivorGuilt: A complicated version appears when Sherif Wade [[spoiler:learns that Rocco's gang would have killed him if Frank, Nora, or James had talked to him during his visit and gven him information that would have kept him from killing the Osceola brothers. He says that being killed may have been preferable to killing two innocent men.]]
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* SurvivorGuilt: A complicated version appears when Sherif Sheriff Wade [[spoiler:learns that Rocco's gang would have killed him if Frank, Nora, or James had talked to him during his visit and gven him information that would have kept him from killing the Osceola brothers. He says that being killed may have been preferable to killing two innocent men.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The skipper of Rocco's yacht lifts anchor and flees due to the threat of the hurricane. He wisely doesn't return afterward [[BadBoss because he knows that if he does, Rocco will kill him for running off.]]
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* SurvivorGuilt: A complicated version appears when Sherif Wade [[spoiler:learns that Rocco's gang would have killed him if Frank, Nora, or James had talked to him during his visit and gven him information that would have kept him from killing the Osceola brothers. He says that being killed may have been preferable to killing two innocent men.]]
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Ralph]] is knocked off the boat in the climax and is last heard screaming for help as it speeds away. He probably drowns afterward, but there's a slight chance he might have swam to safety.
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''Key Largo'' is a 1948 FilmNoir directed by Creator/JohnHuston, adapted InNameOnly from a 1939 play by Maxwell Anderson.
Creator/HumphreyBogart plays Frank [=McCloud=], a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran who visits a shoddy, run-down hotel in Key Largo, Florida, that has been taken over by a notorious gangster named Johnny Rocco (Creator/EdwardGRobinson). Rocco is waiting at the hotel to conduct business, and awaits the first chance to flee to Cuba where he'd been exiled by the feds.
The hotel is run by the disabled James Temple (Creator/LionelBarrymore) and his daughter-in-law Nora (Creator/LaurenBacall), the widow of Frank's old friend. James mourns the loss of his son in Italy and wants him to have died a hero. A passing sheriff's deputy, checking on the place as a hurricane threatens to blow in, is also taken hostage by Rocco's gang. A group of local Seminoles try to find sanctuary but are forced to huddle outside as the storm approaches.
''Key Largo'' is a 1948 FilmNoir directed by Creator/JohnHuston, adapted InNameOnly from a 1939 play by Maxwell Anderson.
Creator/HumphreyBogart plays Frank [=McCloud=], a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran who visits a shoddy, run-down hotel in Key Largo, Florida, that has been taken over by a notorious gangster named Johnny Rocco (Creator/EdwardGRobinson). Rocco is waiting at the hotel to conduct business, and awaits the first chance to flee to Cuba where he'd been exiled by the feds.
The hotel is run by the disabled James Temple (Creator/LionelBarrymore) and his daughter-in-law Nora (Creator/LaurenBacall), the widow of Frank's old friend. James mourns the loss of his son in Italy and wants him to have died a hero. A passing sheriff's deputy, checking on the place as a hurricane threatens to blow in, is also taken hostage by Rocco's gang. A group of local Seminoles try to find sanctuary but are forced to huddle outside as the storm approaches.
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''Key Largo'' is a 1948 FilmNoir directed by Creator/JohnHuston, adapted InNameOnly from
The hotel is run by the disabled James Temple (Creator/LionelBarrymore) and his daughter-in-law Nora (Creator/LaurenBacall), the widow of Frank's old war friend. James mourns the loss of his son in Italy and wants him to have died a hero. A passing sheriff's deputy, checking on the place as a hurricane threatens to blow in, is also taken hostage by Rocco's gang. A group of local Seminoles try to find sanctuary but are forced to huddle outside as the storm approaches.
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* LadyDrunk: Gaye, who spends most of her time in the hotel begging for liquor. It seems tat being Rocco's moll hasn't been good for her.
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* LadyDrunk: Gaye, who spends most of her time in the hotel begging for liquor. It seems tat that being Rocco's moll hasn't been good for her.
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* FiveManBand:
** BigBad: Johnny Rocco
** TheDragon: Ralph
** TheEvilGenius: Toots
** TheBrute: Curly, Angel
** TheDarkChick: Gaye Dawn
** BigBad: Johnny Rocco
** TheDragon: Ralph
** TheEvilGenius: Toots
** TheBrute: Curly, Angel
** TheDarkChick: Gaye Dawn
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* FiveBadBand: FiveManBand:
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* AffablyEvil: Curly is so polite and upbeat that you almost forget he's a mobster.
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* DirtyCoward: Nora derides [=McCloud=] as this after he says he won't risk his life just to bring Rocco down. It's subverted later on when she sees [=McCloud=] risk his life just to comfort Gaye after Rocco torments her.
** Played straight with Rocco himself, however. He's brave enough when he has people outnumbered or the other guy's gun is unloaded, but when faced with real danger, such as the hurricane, he quickly loses his nerve. [[spoiler:In the final face-off with [=McCloud=], he pleads, begs, and tries several times to trick Frank into dropping his guard.]]
** Played straight with Rocco himself, however. He's brave enough when he has people outnumbered or the other guy's gun is unloaded, but when faced with real danger, such as the hurricane, he quickly loses his nerve. [[spoiler:In the final face-off with [=McCloud=], he pleads, begs, and tries several times to trick Frank into dropping his guard.]]
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* InNameOnly: All that the film has in common with the play it is supposedly based on is there being a couple of fugitive Seminoles falsely blamed for a murder. The characters of the play have completely different names and backstories. The play does not feature a gangster taking people hostage, and is not set during a hurricane or even in a hotel, though its Spanish Civil War background was out of date by the time the film was produced.
* IronicEcho: Rocco spends most of the movie armed and dangerous, threatening to shoot the hostages on the slightest whim, taunting Frank as a coward for surviving the war. When the hurricane starts turning Rocco into a quivering mass, Frank taunts back: "You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it!"
* IronicEcho: Rocco spends most of the movie armed and dangerous, threatening to shoot the hostages on the slightest whim, taunting Frank as a coward for surviving the war. When the hurricane starts turning Rocco into a quivering mass, Frank taunts back: "You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it!"
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* InNameOnly: All that the film has in common with the play it is supposedly based on is there being a couple of fugitive Seminoles falsely blamed for a murder. The characters of the play have completely different names and backstories. The play does not feature a gangster taking people hostage, and is not set during a hurricane or even in a hotel, though its Spanish Civil War background was out of date by the time the film was produced.\\
In fact, director John Huston disliked the original play so much, he barred Jerry Wald (the producer who'd convinced Huston to adapt it to film in the first place) from the set during filming completely.
* IronicEcho: Rocco spends most of the movie armed and dangerous, threatening to shoot the hostages on the slightest whim, taunting Frank as a coward for surviving the war. When the hurricane starts turning Rocco into a quiveringmass, mess, Frank taunts back: "You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it!"
In fact, director John Huston disliked the original play so much, he barred Jerry Wald (the producer who'd convinced Huston to adapt it to film in the first place) from the set during filming completely.
* IronicEcho: Rocco spends most of the movie armed and dangerous, threatening to shoot the hostages on the slightest whim, taunting Frank as a coward for surviving the war. When the hurricane starts turning Rocco into a quivering
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: A deadly trap for Sawyer.ItWorksBetterWithBullets:
** Rocco gives Frank a gun and taunts him to take a suicidal shot at him, saying that a real hero should be [[HeroicSacrifice willing to die]] to rid the world of Johnny Rocco. Frank refuses and puts the gun down. But Sawyer grabs the gun and proves he is willing to take the shot... and finds the gun isn't loaded.
** Later, Frank comes to James Temple's defense, and Rocco gets angry enough he actually tries to shoot him. But nothing happens--by mistake, Rocco was holding the still-unloaded gun from before.
** Rocco gives Frank a gun and taunts him to take a suicidal shot at him, saying that a real hero should be [[HeroicSacrifice willing to die]] to rid the world of Johnny Rocco. Frank refuses and puts the gun down. But Sawyer grabs the gun and proves he is willing to take the shot... and finds the gun isn't loaded.
** Later, Frank comes to James Temple's defense, and Rocco gets angry enough he actually tries to shoot him. But nothing happens--by mistake, Rocco was holding the still-unloaded gun from before.
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* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: Provides the backdrop to Frank's disillusionment.
** Though in the original stage version, the hero fought in the Spanish Civil War.
** Though in the original stage version, the hero fought in the Spanish Civil War.
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* DieHardOnAnX: One of the earliest film examples. However, while the characters are held hostage in an isolated environment for the bulk on the film, Frank doesn't get to sneaking around and knocking off bad guys until they're on the boat towards the end.
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* DieHardOnAnX: One of the [[UrExample earliest film examples.examples]]. However, while the characters are held hostage in an isolated environment for the bulk on the film, Frank doesn't get to sneaking around and knocking off bad guys until they're on the boat towards the end.
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* {{Expy}}: Rocco is loosely based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano Lucky Luciano]], one of the most powerful gangsters of the 1930s who ended up imprisoned in 1936 and then deported to Sicily by 1946.
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* {{Expy}}: Rocco is loosely based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano Lucky Luciano]], one of the most powerful gangsters of the 1930s who ended up imprisoned in 1936 and then deported to Sicily by 1946. Like Rocco, Lucky Luciano tried running his crime empire from Cuba for a while, after he was kicked out of the United States.
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* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:Frank has to shoot Rocco, who is attempting all the while with his last strength to raise his gun and shoot Frank, three times before he finally stays down]].
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* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler:Frank Frank has to shoot Rocco, who is attempting all the while with his last strength to raise his gun and shoot Frank, three times before he finally stays down]].down.
