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The movie is entertaining in its own right, and representative of the era in which it was produced, but, aside from the legendary interaction between Bogart and Lauren Bacall, there are only moderate reasons to recommend the film.
The scenes between Bogart and Bacall are so dazzlingly about attraction and sex that they encapsulate the whole magic of movies.
As the hard-boiled professional fisherman who gives his ample ingenuity to a cause, Mr. Bogart is almost as impressive as he was as Rick, the Casablanca host.
"You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow," said Lauren Bacall to Bogey in this entertaining follow-up to Casablanca, thus launching the onscreen (and offscreen) romance that made them a popular team in the 1940s.
It owes more to Casablanca than it does to Hemingway.
Has a slick of bestial sweat to it that promises that the explosion of really naughty stuff is looming.
[Bogey & Bacall's] onscreen chemistry is palpable, all but overshadowing the fictional back story that made Rick and Ilsa's dance in Casablanca so memorable.
A química entre Bogart e Bacall (numa estréia impressionante) é motivo suficiente para que este filme se mantenha vivo na memória dos amantes do Cinema.
The movie is basically a rip-off of "Casablanca," but it's got some marvelous dialogue and great intrigue.
...holds up surprisingly well over time, as most of Bogart's films do.
...an intriguing, romantic, sometimes exciting, predictable but entertaining motion picture.
The film was Bacall's first movie and the project on which she and Bogart met. Their love scenes couldn't be any spicier.
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