Immediately, she intuitively senses that he isn""t a sick man: "At first I didn""t know you.I thought you were sick...You aren""t sick, are you?...Why, Uncle Charlie, you""re not sick.That was the funniest thing." The rest of the family greets Uncle Charlie and march toward the car with his heavy luggage - the self-satisfied uncle follows behind and takes out one of his phallic cigars...Hotel""s closed.In the summertime, everything""s closed." The intoxicated and frustrated female insisted with considerable fury hat the beefy bar-tender give him a beer anyway: ("You heard me! Give him a drink!"), and he begrudgingly complied.One deceased teen had cut off his eyelids to stay awake.Nancy herself was taking a sleep-depressant prescription of Hypnocil, and described the function of the song - it was designed to keep he boogeyman away.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).