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.
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.
Part of a cycle of movies made during the mid-to-late 1970s about Tinseltown, Old Hollywood and its Golden Age including the Silent Film era. The pictures include Fedora (1978), Inserts (1975), Valentino (1977), Nickelodeon (1976), Silent Movie (1976), The Wild Party (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), Hearts of the West (1975), The Day of the Locust (1975), The World's Greatest Lover (1977), Gable and Lombard (1976), Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976), Bud and Lou (1978), and W.C. Fields and Me (1976). Bogie (1980) and Mommie Dearest (1981) would soon follow as well.