Actress Lauren Bacall, the widow of Humphrey Bogart, once said of this production: "It's a bunch of crap, and there's no way to stop it. It's a crock, unadulterated garbage, and it's untrue. They're just going to use him. Jesus, there's no creativity left in the world. People will do anything for money. Anything."
Vincent Sherman, who directed this biopic of Humphrey Bogart, had been a contract director at Warner Bros. during the late 1930s and early 1940s and directed 'Bogie' in five pictures.
Final feature film role of actor Robert Karnes who portrayed one of the chess players. He sadly passed away before this tele-movie was first broadcast.