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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The script was deemed unsatisfactory, so Truman Capote was brought in to re-write it ''while onset''.

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* TroubledProduction: The film started out having its screenplay written by Claud Cockburn, the author of the novel the film was based on. However, Cockburn didn't finish the screenplay in time for the shoot, and what he ''had'' written was mostly unworkable, forcing Huston to hire Creator/TrumanCapote to polish up what they could salvage from Cockburn's screenplay while writing new material during the shoot. In several cases, Capote and Creator/JohnHuston were literally writing new pages and handing them to the actors minutes before the cameras were due to roll. Astoundingly, the shoot otherwise wasn't overly problematic, other than some mild bickering between Huston and Creator/HumphreyBogart...at least until Bogart was injured in a car accident, forcing Huston to resort to filming scenes with a body double and Creator/JenniferJones for a couple of days. Even when Bogart recovered enough to resume working, they couldn't find a decent dentist to replace the teeth Bogart had lost in the accident, forcing Huston to rely on, of all people, a young Creator/PeterSellers to overdub some of Bogart's lines in the finished product. The finished product ended up flopping at the box-office, and Bogart -- who invested a substantial amount of money into the production and lost nearly all of it -- ended up blaming Huston, resulting in the two never working together again.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The script was deemed unsatisfactory, so Truman Capote Creator/TrumanCapote was brought in to re-write it ''while onset''.onset''.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Sweden, the film was called "Skälmarnas marknad", meaning roughly "The Market of the Rogues".
* CreatorBacklash: Creator/HumphreyBogart reportedly disliked the film, perhaps because he lost a good deal of his own money bankrolling it.
* ProductionPosse: This was the final collaboration between Creator/JohnHuston and Creator/HumphreyBogart.
* ThoseTwoActors: This was the last of four films that Creator/HumphreyBogart and Creator/PeterLorre made together.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The script was deemed unsatisfactory, so Truman Capote was brought in to re-write it ''while onset''.

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