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:012569676862
Release Date:January 2006
Rating:G (General Audience)
Publisher:WarnerBrothers
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:Full Screen; Closed-captioned; NTSC; Subtitled
This movie brings together the start of Bacall-Bogart as their off screen romance blossoms before us in this classical tale of love and trust from Ernest Hemingway set in the Spain of Franco's take over war. Bogart was featured in a few of Hemingways novels brought to life and they turn it on pretty good in this one.
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