Humphrey Bogart was given top billing, in part, to further humiliate Kay Francis, whose $200,000 annual salary and declining popularity had become a sore spot for Warner boss Jack L. Warner. Aware of the motives, Bogie was unhappy that he was being used as a pawn in order to humiliate Francis in front of the public that had once admired her. After years of struggling as a relatively-unknown actor in B-films, he considered achieving his second top billing this way to be more salt in the wound. (He had been top billed in Black Legion two years earlier.)

As the film progresses, it seems the main reason why Carole (Kay Francis) wants revenge on Joe (Humphrey Bogart), the death of her husband, is completely forgotten. Instead, the focus becomes Carole saving her new love interest Bill from Joe and the gang.

Initial motivations often evolve in movies (as in life itself); this type of change does not constitute a Goof.

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