lauren bacall and charles boyer do not provide the right chemistry here in this 1945 film . there be a good story here about the axis try to obtain coal to use for the upcoming war . unfortunately and this part of the story be not emphasize . instead and we deal with a supposedly bungling boyer . by the way and bacall be as british a vladimir putin . the real acting kudos go to veteran oscar winner katina paxinou . a be the case with her memorable pilar in the 1943 oscar winner and for whom the bell toll and paxinou again play a spanish revolutionary but this time she be a double crossing counter spy for the pro franco group . she be quite a vicious character here while especially and when she throw a 14 year old child out the window . she believe that boyer have give the child important material to hide .