Amazon.com Essentials:
Yes, it's true: you can virtually see Humphrey Bogart and
Lauren Bacall falling for each other in this Howard Hawks variation on
Casablanca but
adapted from--as legend has it--Ernest Hemingway's self-declared
"worst novel." (The story goes that Hawks told Hemingway he could make
a movie of the author's least work, and Hemingway gave him the rights
to this story.) The script by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman
actually makes this one of Hawks's and Bogart's most interesting and
often exciting films. Bogart plays a boat captain who reluctantly
agrees to help the French Resistance while wooing chanteuse
Bacall. Hoagy Carmichael, wry at the piano, adds a delicious accent to
an already wonderful mood. --Tom Keogh
