This was Huston""s final film with Warner Bros.Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall would never star together again on the big screen (this was their fourth and final film), after having previously worked together in three other classic films:To Have and Have Not (1942)(whichKey Largoclosely resembled in its dark tone)The Big Sleep (1946)Dark Passage (1947)This was also the 5th and final film co-starring Bogart with Edward G.] The film""s title uses a familiar American phrase that means anything simple or easy, or alternately, a gullible sucker or pushover.The satirical film was a strong indictment of rampant 1970s capitalistic consumerism, as it showed the group looting the shopping areas of luxuries and living the American dream in a barricaded storage area with an excess of material goods, distracted while decaying, undead danger lurked close by." Ashamed of being thought a coward, Jim also wishes he wouldn""t feel confused and that his parents would listen to him and give more helpful advice:How can a guy grow up in a circus like that?.