The last of the great gangster films, High Sierra ushers the genre into the Forties, and the gangster himself into the role of existential anti-hero. The script by John Huston and W.R. Burnett has been said to be the finest ever written for such a film in Hollywood. High Sierra boasts Bogart at his best as Roy Earle, recently sprung from jail and hiding out in the Sierras after a new robbery - a "no exit" situation which ends in a mountain shootout. Ida Lupino, as the hard-bitten cabaret singer who falls in love with "Mad Dog" Earle, here creates one of the most memorable of "supporting roles" in any film. Manny Farber, in fact, writing about actors' space in his book, "Negative Space," comments: "Ida Lupino, an unforgettable drifter in a likable antique, High Sierra, works close and guardedly to the camera, her early existentialist-heroine role held to size: she's very unglorious, has her place, and, retracting into herself, steals scenes from Bogart at his most touching."