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Graham Greene, on whose novel the movie is based, said that it was "the only good film ever made from one of my books by an American director."
Reviews were so disastrous that Warner Brothers decided to add extra scenes with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to The Big Sleep (1946) in order to build up her role and hopefully limit the damage to her image.
Franz Waxman reused his title music for this movie in Dark Passage (1947). The same music was also used over the title in To Have and Have Not (1944).
According to a contemporary article in Daily Variety, Warner Bros. intended the film to star Humphrey Bogart and Eleanor Parker when it acquired the film rights to the novel.
The "Entrenationo" language school may be a reference to Esperanto, a "constructed" language invented in the 1870s-'80s to foster communication and harmony between people of different nationalities. Esperanto speakers came under suspicion in such right-wing or Fascist countries as Nazi Germany (because the inventor was Jewish), Imperial Japan and Francisco Franco's Spain.
"Luis Denard: I've been beaten, robbed, suckered, betrayed - I've failed my mission - I've had enough. But that child was murdered, and for this someone is going to pay."
"Rose Cullen: Was your wife at all like me? Luis Denard: No. She was a much nicer person. Rose Cullen: That's honest anyway."
