To Have and Have Not (film)
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| Directed by | Howard Hawks |
| Produced by | Howard Hawks Jack L. Warner |
| Screenplay by |
Jules Furthman William Faulkner |
| Based on |
To Have and Have Not 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway |
| Starring |
Humphrey Bogart Walter Brennan Lauren Bacall Dolores Moran Hoagy Carmichael |
| Music by |
William Lava Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
| Edited by | Christian Nyby |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.65 million |
To Have and Have Not is a 1944 American romance-war-adventure film directed by Howard Hawks. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall in her film debut. Although it is nominally based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, the story was extensively altered for the film.
To Have and Have Not is considered one of Hawks's stronger efforts, with critics often praising its acting and direction.
The film is set in Fort-de-France, in the French colony of Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France. The island is now controlled by pro-German Vichy France. World-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) has a small fishing-boat which he charters to tourists. Eddie (Walter Brennan) is his unofficial mate, though he is little use to Harry due to his heavy drinking. Harry is urged to help the French Resistance smuggle some people onto the island, but he refuses.
At the hotel he meets Marie ("Slim") Browning (Lauren Bacall), a young American wanderer, who sings "How Little We Know" with pianist Cricket (Hoagy Carmichael) in the bar. Harry's current charter client, Johnson (Walter Sande), owes Harry $825 ($14,100 today), but Johnson says that he cannot pay till the bank opens the next day. Harry sees Slim pick Johnson's pocket, and forces her to give him the wallet – which contains $1,400 in traveler's cheques and a plane ticket for very early the next morning. On returning the wallet to Johnson, he demands that Johnson sign the traveler's cheques to pay him immediately. But just then, there is a shootout in front of the hotel between police and the Resistance, and Johnson is killed by a stray bullet. The police take Harry and several others for questioning, and seize Harry's passport and money.
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