Some of the film""s posters exclaimed the tagline:It shouts and sings with life...explodes with love!The introductions of the film""s five main characters in the Nevada desert revealed that three were also ""misfit"" cowboys who had failed family relationships (for various reasons) in their lives.(A college student, Jeffrey is home from school/college to visit his father, the local hardware store owner, while he recovers from his debilitating stroke.Director Rob Reiner directed this smart, modern-day ""screwball comedy"" (his fifth film) of the semi-autobiographical ale - it was compiled from the shared recollections of actual romances.Bogart had made three other films in 1943:Sahara,Action in the North Atlantic, andThank Your Lucky Stars.