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).He was living the materialistic, suburban "American dream," although his life was quietly-desperate and miserable."After the group of 13 and wizard Gandalf departed on ponyback from his hobbit hole, Bilbo reluctantly signed the contract and joined them (although most of the dwarves had wagered hat he wouldn""t).He would be a Messianic figure of sorts.And Ann finagles her job back (her "meal ticket"), with a $1,000 bonus.A number of likely individuals are escorted into Connell""s office for covert interviews.The door opens on "Long John" Willoughby (Gary Cooper) - a plain-speaking, penniless homeless man and an ex-ballplaying (bush-league, sand-lot) pitcher with a sore arm (his "wing went bad").After inspecting Clay""s dropped backpack, Jason shone spotlights in the area and overturned the canoes - but the two had already moved elsewhere behind archery targets.