Humphrey Bogart in "Watch on the Rhine". The film vaulted Bogart from fourth place to first in the studio's roster, finally overtaking James Cagney. By 1946 he'd more than doubled his annual salary to over $460,000, making him the highest-paid actor in the world. Between 1943 and 1944, Bogart went on the United Service Organizations and War Bond tours accompanied by Methot, enduring arduous travels to Italy and North Africa, including Casablanca. Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming "To Have and Have Not" (1944), a loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. The movie has many similarities with "Casablanca"—the same enemies, the
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) other surgeons, they plot to get him to stay by making Burns believe there is gold in the nearby Korean hills. Letting his greed override his better judgment, Burns revokes his transfer. It has been said that the Stone Roses song Fools Gold is about the film. Singer and lyricist Ian "Brown almost whispers his cryptic blank verse which, he claimed, was inspired by the Humphrey Bogart movie 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. "Three geezers who are skint and they put their money together to get equipment to go looking for gold," he said. "Then they all betray each