In this pre-Code romantic drama about an obsessive, manipulative romance of a cheating female with a male benefactor in "bondage" to her, there were issues of promiscuity, adultery, a birth out-of-wedlock, naked drawings, a mutually-destructive relationship, and retributive death from TB/syphilis during prostitution.]Directed on location (on the Ruiki in the then Belgian Congo and the British protectorate of Uganda) by John Huston (it was his ninth feature film and fifth film with Bogart), the film was nominated for four Academy Awards - Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn), Best Screenplay (James Agee and John Huston), Best Director, and Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart).The unnerved Letty imagined in her mind, via an inserted cutaway, an image of a white stallion (the "ghost horse") galloping up into the clouds - a frequent subjective vision in the film.At the river""s edge, the smartly-evolved and more advanced "Big Daddy" demonstrated to a well-organized horde of hundreds of other fellow zombies that they could cross the river without drowning, by walking on the riverbed bottom under the water.