What is strength after all ?

The Keys are small islets just off Florida where Key Largo is the biggest of them all.
Key Largo is a 1948 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It is not your usual story love and its melodrama. Frank McCloud (Bogart), a war veteran stops at Key Largo to pay respects to his comrade's widow (Bacall) and crippled father who run a hotel there. Unknowingly, the hotel is hijacked by Johnny Rocco, a wanted mobster who ran away to Cuba but stopped there awaiting to complete his counterfeit money transaction with another mob. The drama unfolds when our soldier is caught in between amongst the owner of the hotel, Rocco, his alcoholic ex-singer mistress (Claire Trevor who won the 1948 Best Supporting Actress Academy award), the henchmen, two escaped Red Indian convicts and an impending hurricane.
McCloud, feeling weary after all the killing, gets ridiculed after declining a duel with Rocco. When the typhoon is about to show up, it is the turn of the hoodlums to panic, especially with psychological fear tactic tales told the handicapped owner of the hotel. After a series of suspenseful encounters, the hero realises that he has to defeat the baddies in their own way and he does it well.
It is another fine performance by the husband and wife team as well as Edward G. Robinson as the mean gangster. Interestingly, the poster advertising this movie displays that this showing is only suitable for adults. I wonder why? There is nothing adult in its theme and the point the movie is trying to tell is that just because you are holding the gun does not make you strong, being strong is more that that.

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