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Howard Hawks,
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: Not Rated
: Warner Home Video
: Classics, Drama, Romance, Classic Romance, Classic Drama, Seafaring, Classic Drama
: 100 min.
: English
: English, Spanish, French
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone is "Ever get stung by a dead bee?" While in port, Harry is approached by Free French activist Gerard (Marcel Dalio), who wants to charter Harry's boat to smuggle in an important underground leader. Adopting his usual I-stick-my-neck-out-for-no-one stance, Morgan refuses. Later on, he starts up a dalliance with Marie Browning (screen newcomer Lauren Bacall), an attractive pickpocket. In order to help Marie return to America, Harry agrees to Gerard's smuggling terms. He uses his boat to bring resistance fighter De Bursac (Walter Molnar) and De Bursac's wife Helene (Dolores Moran) into Martinique. The Vichy police, suspecting that something's amiss, hold Morgan's pal Eddie hostage, tormenting the poor rummy by denying him liquor. Predictably, Morgan comes to Eddie's rescue and manages to escape Martinique, with the delectable Marie as cozy company. In the hands of director Howard Hawks and screenwriters Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, the end result bore only a passing relation to the original story by Ernest Hemingway: instead, it was a virtual rehash (but a good one!) of the recently released Casablanca, replete with several of that film's cast members. The film's enduring popularity is primarily -- if not solely -- due to the sexy chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, especially in the legendary "You know how to whistle, don't you?" scene. The most salutary result of To Have & Have Not was the subsequent Bogart-Bacall marriage, which endured until his death in 1957. It's widely believed that Lauren Bacall's singing voice was dubbed in by a pre-puberty Andy Williams; this is not true. For the record, a more faithful-to-the-source cinemadaptation of the Hemingway original was filmed in 1950 as The Breaking Point. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Special Features:
- New Making-of Featurette A Love Story: The Story of To Have and Have Not
- Vintage Merrie Melodies Cartoon Bacall to Arms
- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Headlining the 10/14/46 Lux Radio Theater Production
- Theatrical Trailer
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| A Classic
by JWhelan
August 13, 2007 - 7:45 PM PDT
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| The dialog here ranks with the best of the Bogie films, making it my third favorite following Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, and my favorite Bacall film period. Interesting cast of characters, excellent storyline, and great period music by Hoagie Carmichael (composer of Stardust) who has a bit part. Bogart and Bacall first met while making this movie and their chemistry is fun to watch. Of course, it doesn't have anywhere near the stature of Casablanca but, really, it's nothing like Casablanca at all. |
| A Bizarro World Casablanca
by BTemchine
December 11, 2005 - 6:51 PM PST
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2 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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This is like watching a Bizarro world Casablanca, which was released the year before. Instead of the weaselly murderer Peter Lorre you have the weaselly resistance leader Marcel Dalio. In place of the gorgeous Ingrid Bergman as Bogart's love interest you have the gorgeous Lauren Bacall as Bogart's love interest. Instead of the corpulent club owner Sidney Greenstreet you have the vichy cop played by Sheldon Leonard as a corpulent mediteraaneann version of Colonel Strasser; Casablanca becomes Martinique and the irrepressible Sam on the piano is replaced with the equally irrepresible Hoagy Carmichael on the piano.
Except it is terrible. I give it a four just because Lauren Bacall is the sexiest woman I have ever seen.
It is almost impossible to believe that Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner collaborated on this. The movie makes no sense. Bogart's character has a completely unexplained change of heart from "I stick my neck out for no man" to "Liberacion!" The crepe paper thin excuse that he needs the moeny is laughable and forgotten quickly by the script. And why the hard bitten pick pocket played by Bacall would fall for the Bogart's charter boat captain is a total mystery. He has no money, no connections... it doesn't make any sense and the writer doesn't try to make it make sense.
And the most famous line, "You know how to whistle don't yah? You just put your lips together and blow." is like a scene from another movie. In the making of documentary they say it was a line Faulkner wrote for Bacall's screen test and liked so much he put it in the movie. That is the way it feels.
I have not read the Hemingway novel. I have heard that Director Howard Hawks bet Hemingway he could make a good film from Hemingway's worst novel.
What they really did was take one of the greatest movies if all time, Casablanca, and turned it into nonsensical piffle.
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