In many ways the ultimate Hawks film: clear, direct, and thoroughly brilliant.

Lauren Bacall has cinema personality to burn, and she burns both ends against an unusually little middle.

Asking an audience to laugh for two hours at the delirium tremens of a man suffering from alcoholism is a grisly thing.

... it comes down to the superb chemistry between the stars, who fell in love in real life. You can feel the attraction in their scenes together.