Produced for his own company, Bogart dons a trenchcoat again for a far more downbeat version of 'Casablanca' (complete with a Swedish leading lady) that could have been called 'Damascus'.
Ironically supporting actors Zero Mostel and Ludwig Donath were both shortly afterwards blacklisted, while Lee J. Cobb was a 'friendly witnesses'; while both Bogie and the lovely Marta Toren (who aptly says of her leading man "How can a man so ugly be so handsome?") here endlessly smoke cigarettes only to later succumb to cancer within weeks of each other.
While screenwriter A. I. Bezzerides puts into the mouth of the leader of the Syrian rebels the currently topical observation of the occupying forces that they may win militarily but "The world shall see you for the butchers that you are."
Ironically supporting actors Zero Mostel and Ludwig Donath were both shortly afterwards blacklisted, while Lee J. Cobb was a 'friendly witnesses'; while both Bogie and the lovely Marta Toren (who aptly says of her leading man "How can a man so ugly be so handsome?") here endlessly smoke cigarettes only to later succumb to cancer within weeks of each other.
While screenwriter A. I. Bezzerides puts into the mouth of the leader of the Syrian rebels the currently topical observation of the occupying forces that they may win militarily but "The world shall see you for the butchers that you are."