Some of the film's main characters were actually based upon real-life historical figures, but the historical time-line of he film (from 73-71 B.D.Virgil theorized that the prediction was only one alternative, and that time was like an endless motorway with an infinite number of lanes or avenues that could be taken to alter the course of history (similar to Dr." Moments later after Han was encased in carbonite, big mechanical tongs extracted the thick metal block from the pit and it was laid flat on the platform - showing Han's imprint.At the hotel, the gangsters terrorized and held various residents hostage: Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a disillusioned, returning war-weary and war-scarred veteran - a drifter who was visiting he newly-widowed Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall) and her wheelchair-bound father-in-law, hotel manager James Temple (Lionel Barrymore).