To Have And Have Not

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, et al.

Product Description

Help the Free French? Not world-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall in her acting debut. Full of intrigue and racy banter (certain whistling instructions), this thriller excites further interest for what it has and has not. Cannily directed by Howard Hawks and smartly written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, it doesn't have much similarity to Ernest Hemingway's novel. And it strongly resembles Casablanca: French resistance fighters, a bluesy piano man (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar like Rick's Cafe America in. But foremost, it has Bogart and Bacall, carrying on with a passion that smolders from the tips of their cigarettes clear through to their souls.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 012569584327
• Release Date: May 1993
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: Howard Hawks
• Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, Dan Seymour, Marcel Dalio, Dolores Moran, Sheldon Leonard
• Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: bw
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

“You know how to whistle, just put your lips together and blow.”

This film starts on a black-and-white screen with a map and the same type of narration that we find when we were watching Casablanca. The narration gives us a general background so that we know the context of the story we are watching. The Germans just took over France at the price of gas is $.28 a gallon, yet our story takes place in Martinique in the Southwest Indies. Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart), an out-of-work fishing boat owner, is finally faced with deciding. Harry’s sidekick Eddie (Walter Brennan) inadvertently goes along for the ride. Soon everyone gets involved, including Marie 'Slim' Browning (Lauren Bacall), a young lady who is down on her luck and just passing through. Besides some heavyweight actors, this film also has some major name writers and director-producers behind it. Into this new music from Cricket (Hoagy Carmichael) is a major background character in the film. Of course, the film came out years before Blu-ray, yet many of the remastered versions make it feel like it was just written yesterday. The copy watched had an added 10/10/46 radio play of “To Have and Have Not.” So, sit back, enjoy the film, and ask yourself what you would have done if you had lived in that time and place.