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.
** Including Docks of New York for von Sternberg, then Morocco and Shanghai Express. Some of his silents include Twins of Suffering Creek, A Sister to Salome, The Pleasant Devil, Colorado Pluck and A Camouflage Kiss!
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