Bogart gets a really cool turn-to-camera intro that plays into his Casablanca iconography with the trench coat and cigarette dangling from his mouth. I’d argue that later, he looks even cooler in a fur collar leather jacket.
What’s not cool, is Bogart rolling around on the floor, unconvincingly trying to sell himself as a Judo expert and striking cringe fight stances.
That his character owns a bar in a foreign land is another overt connection to his most famous film,…