A world-premiere stage adaptation of the 1948 John Huston film noir classic takes a different route to roiling drama at the Geffen Playhouse.
The world-premiere production of “Key Largo” at Geffen Playhouse is Andy Garcia’s and playwright Jeffrey Hatcher’s updated version of the original play by Maxwell Anderson and the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson.
Danny Pino brings a different kind of smoldering energy than Bogart did to the role of Frank McCloud, the World War II major who has traveled to this tropical locale to greet the father and wife of a soldier killed under his command. Pino’s eyes are less darkly hooded than Bogart’s. His Frank is similarly scarred by his experiences on the battlefield, but he doesn’t seem to be living a posthumous existence.
The problem with the character is genealogical. 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. Although Hatcher and Garcia’s adaption claims to be based on both Anderson’s original and the subsequent Warner Bros. film, their version hews more closely to the movie.Frank’s character clearly has secrets, but what they are is never adequately elucidated.
The supporting cast brings to the stage the vivid color of classic Hollywood. Joely Fisher invests Gaye Dawn, Rocco’s lush of a mistress, with a kind of louche nobility. Louis Mustillo and Stephen Borrello, part of Rocco’s gang, heighten the foreboding atmosphere with a thugishness that reveals how anxious they are to please the boss. Tony Plana gives Mr.
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