Expatriate American Harry Morgan helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.
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Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against their better judgement to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days. Written by
Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>
Andy Williams states in his biography that his voice (at age 14) is the one actually used for Lauren Bacall singing "How Little We Know". But according to author Eric Lax, Bacall did her own singing, after researching studio call sheets. See more »
Goofs
When Frenchy takes Capt Morgan to the cellar to remove a bullet, Frenchy unlocks the cellar door and promptly relocks it after they enter the cellar. A few minutes later, Slim comes down the stairs in the cellar with the first aid kit and the hot water. Frenchy has been in the room with the wounded man all this time and couldn't have unlocked the cellar door. See more »
Quotes
Title Card:
[first lines]
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Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France.
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Forte de France
Steve:
Morning.
Officer at port:
Good Morning, Captain Morgan. What can I do for you today?
Steve:
Same thing as yesterday.
Officer at port:
You and your client wish to make a temporary exit from the port?
Steve:
*That* is right.
Officer at port:
Name?
Steve:
Ha - Harry Morgan.
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... Bogart is held in high esteem for his career of acting. He was just that damn good.
Forget all of the top ten lists, awards, honorable mentions, etc. It's really hard to put a finger on it exactly, but his ability to transform what in a script is a mediocre character with average, even sometimes corny lines, into someone who you always seem to be rooting for - someone who's delivery is always convincing - has to be proof of natural skill.
The interplay between he and Bacall is some of the most unforced, natural acting ever to grace the big screen. And what could be sexier than Bacall's flirting before they kissed? One not to be missed.
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... Bogart is held in high esteem for his career of acting. He was just that damn good.
Forget all of the top ten lists, awards, honorable mentions, etc. It's really hard to put a finger on it exactly, but his ability to transform what in a script is a mediocre character with average, even sometimes corny lines, into someone who you always seem to be rooting for - someone who's delivery is always convincing - has to be proof of natural skill.
The interplay between he and Bacall is some of the most unforced, natural acting ever to grace the big screen. And what could be sexier than Bacall's flirting before they kissed? One not to be missed.