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Confidential Agent
Confidential Agent is a 1945 American spy film starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall which was a Warner Brothers production. The movie was directed by Herman Shumlin and produced by Robert Buckner with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Robert Buckner, based on the novel "The Confidential Agent" by Graham Greene. The music score was by Franz Waxman and the cinematography by James Wong Howe. The supporting cast includes George Coulouris and Peter Lorre.
Plot.
In the midst of the Spanish Civil
"Confidential Agent" were largely negative, with particular aspersions cast on Bacall's performance, as a "pretty amateur".
According to film historian Robert Gitt, host of the featurette, Warner studio head Jack L. Warner was lobbied to order certain scenes in "The Big Sleep" re-shot in order to rectify performance issues with Bacall identified in "Confidential Agent", which he did.
In her own autobiography, Bacall said that she begged not to have to do the film, but couldn't break