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Title: Bacalls first time
Review: Bogart and Bacal's sexual tension in this remake of Casablanca is so thick you can cut it with a knife. They had almost instant chemistry off screen and from the "you know how to whistle" scene on Bacal gets better. Even picking up comic business for the scene where Bogart is digging a bullet out of the French Resistence "leader". Walter Brenan also gives a good supporting prefomance as a drunk sidekick. Of course Bogart does not phone it in; he never does. In some ways the film is better than Casablanca because of the Bogart/Bacal relationship. And if you care about acting in films, this one lets you watch Bacal go from model to actress. One problem, they insisted on having Bacal sing. But the Hoggie Carmical at the piano is a treat beyond that song.But Bacal sings in the Big Sleep too with more success. If your a Hemingway fan, you will find that the screen writers used little beyond the title of his book.
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