A stage version of the movie “Key Largo,” John Huston’s 1948 classic film noir starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson, is asking for trouble. But the production of “Key Largo” that opened Thursday at the Geffen Playhouse, featuring a world premiere adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher and actor Andy Garcia, takes a different route to success. This “Key Largo” never stalls for a moment. Frank McCloud derives from Maxwell Anderson’s play “Key Largo,” a poetic drama in which Frank is a deserter of the Spanish Civil War haunted by his own cowardice. The hurricane that hits Key Largo lashes the hotel with a spellbinding fury.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 16, 2019 00:33 UTC