Got your flashlights, battery stash and water supplies? Now hunker down with these hurricane-themed movies recommended by the St. Petersburg, Florida Times as Hurricane Bill passes by:

Key Largo (1948): If a hurricane doesn't kill Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, gangsters holding Key West tourists hostage may finish the job. Claire Trevor won a best supporting actress Academy Award in director John Huston's film noir classic.

Slattery's Hurricane (1949): Richard Widmark stars as a pilot for drug smugglers, haunted by flashbacks of his misdeeds while flying into the eye of an approaching hurricane and saving Miami.

Thunder Bay (1953): A former Naval engineer (James Stewart) plans to build a safe oil drilling platform off the Louisiana coast. A raging hurricane is only one of the obstacles he faces.

The Hurricane (1937), not 1979's Hurricane: Different takes on James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff's novel of tropical desire and destruction. The 1937 version is superior, directed by John Ford with impressive special effects for the era and a starmaking performance by Dorothy Lamour. The 1979 version placed Mia Farrow's tempted virgin at the story's center with laughable results.

Abandon Ship! (a.k.a. Seven Waves Away) (1957): Twenty survivors of a sunken ocean liner cling to hope in a lifeboat. Tyrone Power plays the ship's officer deciding who goes overboard when supplies dwindle and a hurricane approaches.

The Killer Shrews (1959): You've been warned about storm surges, power outages and deadly winds. Now, worry about rodents of unusual size gnawing on humans during a hurricane.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004): Think you have problems with a hurricane coming? Walk a few hundred treacherous miles in Dennis Quaid's boots through every natural disaster imaginable. You'll feel much better about your situation.

The Perfect Storm (2000): OK, so it was a winter Atlantic storm, but the George Clooney fishing boat saga was based on a storm known as the "Unnamed Hurricane".