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 message of director John Sturges"" taut and influential film can be interpreted with different levels of meaning, but predominantly as the tense portrayal of a one-armed stranger who intrusively has arrived in a half-forgotten desert town filled with ruffians.They""re coming for you, Neo.And I don""t know what hey""re going to do."In fact, Agents were already in his office ready to seize him -- and Neo was guided by Morpheus on how to evade them by following specific directions.He allowed one of the female protestors to tuck her anti-social sign ("GO AWAY") into his back seat, but it soon blew off.