Hemingway novel, adapted by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. (Q won't watch Once Upon a Time in the West either. Or The Eagle Has Landed.)
It's a sync thing, the throwing / catching? The chemistry between Bogie and Bacall, the way she keeps interrupting him, is the central joy to the film. Bogie looks relaxed. The Walter Brennan character is a fucked up soul indeed.
Less persuasive is Dan Seymour as Capt. Reynard, which is itself lifted from Casablanca is it not? With a Waxman / Hickox / Nyby team it can't quite argue that film's technical brilliance, though it is a Warner Bros. film.
According to her autobiography, Betty did record the song herself then mimed to it in the take.
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