Key Largo doesn't take long to find its hard noir core. The classic Bogie-Bacall picture from 1948 stashes the main characters in a rumpled hotel in the Florida Keys and lets the battle between good and evil begin-- played out largely against bric-a-brac walls with a vicious storm imminent offshore. It is claustrophic, with nowhere for the characters to run. With that cold open, director John Huston, in one of his best but less-ballyhooed films, unleashed a contained clash of