"Sam Diamond" is a combination of Dashiell Hammett's character "Sam Spade" and "Richard Diamond", played by Dick Powell on radio and David Janssen on TV.
Lou Peckinpaugh:
Miss De Vega, I presume.
Mrs. Montenegro:
Mr. Peckinpaugh, you look startled.
Lou Peckinpaugh:
Oh, no, it's just that, uh, you look like... fourteen other dames that was here the other night.
Mrs. Montenegro:
Yes, I know. They were my sister.
Lou Peckinpaugh:
Well, that explains the resemblance.
Mrs. Montenegro:
Not to me - she was ...
When Lou and Marlene are talking in his apartment, her scarf keeps changing position from surrounding her face to trailing down the back of her head.
Opening credits prologue: In 1939, the ominous grey clouds of war broke loose over Western Europe and rained down havoc and destruction . . . followed by humidity and gradual clearing.
In the Philippines, a small band of native guerrillas prepared secretly for the inevitable conflict that would soon engulf the East . . . This has nothing to do with our story.
Our story is about crime. Not the bad crime we face each day on our streets . . . but the good crime we came to know and love in a time when the world was innocent ... when murder wasn't something you were ashamed of ... when a bullet hole wasn't something disgusting . . . and when a man could betray a woman without feeling guilty. Our story starts in a fictitious city called San Francisco ... seven thousand miles away from Casablanca.
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