george kaplan
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Like everything else in this discussion, we're talking fine lines. While Bacall doesn't serve as a femme fatale by the time the movie is over, she is certainly in that function throughout most of the film. The only real difference is that in the end, her motives turn out to be good, and she can be trusted. Rewrite the last few minutes of the film (without changing anything that came prior), and she could easily be a conniving, lying bitch and a femme fatale. I guess I'm saying that I think that film has 'enough' of a femme fatale to qualify.