Key Largo (song) romance the singer compares to that depicted by the stars of the 1948 film "Key Largo", Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The glamorous couple is recalled in the lyric "We had it all / Just like Bogie and Bacall / Starring in our own late late show / Sailin' away to Key Largo". (In the film, though, Bogart and Bacall do not sail to Key Largo; Bogart arrives on a bus, and Bacall is already living there.) The lyrics also draw from the film "Casablanca", in the lines "Here's looking at you, kid" and "Please say you will / Play
Humphrey Bogart her life." Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for an encore, the film noir "The Big Sleep", based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner. Chandler thoroughly admired Bogart's performance: "Bogart can be tough without a gun. Also, he has a sense of humor that contains that grating undertone of contempt." The film was completed and slated for release in 1945, then withdrawn and substantially re-edited to add new, juiced-up scenes exploiting both the box office chemistry that shone between Bogart and Bacall in "To Have and Have Not",