It deserved to be seen on Blu-Ray*, and Sid Hickox would agree. I'm sure it's not the only time we see the leads falling for each other, but it's maybe one of the few occasions when they stayed together. After Bacall does her famous, sizzling 'You know how to whistle, don't you Steve?' - Bogie's face is amongst the most genuinely happy expressions he pulls, as he himself whistles.
Q identified a connection to They All Laughed - yes. And comments on what a deep voice the young lady has. And (she was having a field day) notices how Bogie takes the bottle off Brennan without even looking at either of them. We both enjoyed:
Eddie: "What if something happens to you?"
Harry / 'Steve': "How do I know? You're the one that invited himself on this trip."
Written by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Jules Furthman (who worked also on The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo and I reckon provides the humour; wrote many, many silent screenplays).
Walter Brennan's performance is fun.
Hoagy Carmichael was the great singer / composer ('Stardust') who provides the rather suspect song about the coloured man in Hong Kong, and who IMDB notes had the longest song title with '"I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doing Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on my Seat-o Hirohito Blues". His performance is creditable. One of the background numbers appears in a Woody Allen. He was named Hoagland after a circus troupe that stayed at the parents's house during pregnancy. Was a friend of Bix Beiderbecke.
With Dolores Moran, Walter Molnar, Marcel Dalio, Dan Seymour.
The music's not credited - IMDB attributes it to Franz Waxman. Christian Nyby edited.
* Indeed - in fact already owned it on Blu-Ray. Must start checking before buying Blu-Rays.
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