To Have and Have Not (film)
- Humphrey Bogart: Harry "Steve" Morgan
- Walter Brennan: Eddie
- Lauren Bacall: Marie Browning
- Dolores Moran: Mme Hellene de Bursac
- Hoagy Carmichael: Cricket
- Sheldon Leonard: Lt. Coyo
- Walter Molnar: Paul de Bursac
- Marcel Dalio: Gerard ( Frenchy )
- Walter Sande: Johnson
- Dan Seymour: Capt. M. Renard
- Aldo Nadi: Renard's Bodyguard
Have and Have Not (Original Title: To Have and Have Not) is a 1944 rotated and directed by Howard Hawks American feature film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in the lead roles. The film is based on the novel Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway.
Action
In Martinique, meets the rough sailor Harry Morgan, who leads tourists around with his ship with the help of the drunkard Eddie, the young American Marie Browning. She is stranded and suggests more bad than good through life. As Browning gets caught while stealing from Morgan, he makes them and they fall in love.
Morgan has come to terms with the war and the local representatives of the Vichy regime, but is torn by his love from this lethargy. He agrees to help Nazi resistance fighters; but only in order to obtain money for the return of his mistress in the United States. It remains however. Only in the final scene both leave as a couple - along with Eddie - the island.
Background
The film Song How Little We Know was written by Hoagy Carmichael, the song lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer.
The film is the first joint of Bogart and Bacall, who fell in love during the filming. It is famous as the scene in which Bacall / Bogart Browning / Morgan asks to fire ( " Anybody got a match? ") And the scene in which she tells him that he should blow the whistle when he needed ( " You know how to whistle, do not you Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow " ).
Criticism
" A atmospherically dense and exciting adventure film, in staging and presentation equally convincing. "
Awards
- In place of the 60, as compiled by the American Film Institute list of the 100 best American love stories of all time.