Although the film was released in mid-1946, it was actually filmed mostly in the fall of 1944 (about six months before Bacall and Bogart were married).Evening - Day OneThe next scene, introduced by the snapping fingers of the guitar player to set the tempo, is within the Elysian Room where a group of five, suited-and-tied jazz musicians on a bandstand play a rhythmic number.However, in the early 1980s, a revisionist crime drama with a May-December romance at its heart couldn""t compete with he age ofDirty Harry (1971)andDeath Wish (1974)vigilante films,The Godfather film saga, and the blockbuster era ofJaws (1975)and heStar Wars Trilogy (1977-1983).[First Identity Change,the first of many masquerades or assumed disguises in the film.] When his story regarding foreign spies and a murder of a woman in his flat meet with disbelief, he improvises a more intriguing sexual scenario to convince the unhappily-married man to exchange his coat - for the good of male brotherhood and male sexual freedom:Hannay: Are you married?Milkman: Yes, but don""t rub it in.Lauderdale...Laughlin: Who flies crates like these anymore?Project Leader: No one.These planes were reported missing in 1945.Laughlin: But it looks brand new.Where""s the pilot? I don""t understand.Where""s the crew? Hey! How the hell did it get here?Laughlin poses unanswerable questions, as the leader finds personal effects in the cockpit of one of the planes - sepia photographs and a 1945 calendar from a bar in Pensacola, Florida.