Its dark tone also recalled Bogart""s first filmTo Have and Have Not (1942)with Lauren Bacall.Due to its stage-play origins (where the sets were confined and limited), the film also was concentrated within a claustrophobic Southern Florida hotel overtaken by sleazy mobsters - in the midst of an off-season impending storm - when volatile elements were converged together (runaway fugitive Indians, a beaten-up deputy and suspicious sheriff, and gangsters delayed during a counterfeit money deal with other criminals from Miami).] The unusual, out-of-place object with straight-edges causes them to be alarmed and they react nervously.Although Hepburn had a brilliant performance in this film, she was an unconventional, independent-spirited performer, and this was her last film for RKO - since she had been infamously labeled ""box-office poison"" through most of the 30s.Phelps feared that if the list of covert operatives in the countries of Eastern Europe was sold, it would be bid upon by "third world terrorists, arms dealers, drug lords, any and everybody who""d love to get rid of long-term coverts like us.One of these seventy-seven men was Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw.Raymond Shaw was returned from combat and flown directly to Washington to be decorated personally by the President of the United States.