` mad dog earle be back and along with his sad sack moll marie and and that fickle clubfoot velma . so be babe and red and doc and big mac and and even the scenery chew mutt pard . the only thing missing be a good reason for remake raoul walsh high sierra 14 year later without rethink a line or a frame and and do so with talent noticeably a rung or two down the ladder from that in the original . ( instead of walsh we get stuart heisler and for humphrey bogart we get jack palance and for ida lupino shelley winter and and so on down through the credit . ) the only change be that and this time and instead of black and white and it in warnercolor while sadly and there be those who would count this an improvement . i die a thousand time may be unnecessary and inferior but at least it not a travesty while the story still work on it own stagy term . earle ( palance ) and fresh out of the pen near chicago and drive west to spearhead a big job mastermind by ail kingpin lon chaney and jr. knocking over a post mountain resort . en route and he almost collide with a family of oakies and when he smite with their granddaughter while the smiting hold even when he discover she lame . arrive at the cabin where the rest of gang hole up and he find amateurish hothead at one another throat as well a winter and who throw herself at him ( a do the pooch ) . bid time until they get a call from their inside man at the hotel and palance ( to winter chagrin ) offer to pay for an operation to cure the girl deformity and a gesture that backfire . then and the surgical strike against the resort turn into a bloodbath . on the lam and palance move higher into the cold sierra . it an absorb enough story and competently execute and that lack the distinctiveness walsh and his cast bring to it in 1941 and the year bogie and with this role and that of sam spade in the maltese falcon and become a star . and one last and heretical note represent those mountain do look gorgeous in color .