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To Have and Have Not (1944)

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Expatriate American Harry Morgan helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.

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Dolores Moran ...
Mme. Hellene de Bursac
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Cricket
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Lt. Coyo
Walter Szurovy ...
Paul de Bursac (as Walter Molnar)
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Gerard aka Frenchy
Walter Sande ...
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Dan Seymour ...
Aldo Nadi ...
Renard's Bodyguard
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Storyline

Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against their better judgement to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days. Written by Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>

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Humphrey Bogart...with his kind of woman in a powerful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's most daring man-woman story! See more »


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Release Date:

20 January 1945 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not  »

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(RCA Sound System)

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1.37 : 1
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Trivia

The movie's line "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." was voted as the #77 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. See more »

Goofs

When Harry Morgan is sitting in the bar, the bottle on his table moves around and disappears between shots. See more »

Quotes

Title Card: [first lines]
Title Card: Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France.
Title Card: Forte de France
Steve: Morning.
Officer at port: Good Morning, Captain Morgan. What can I do for you today?
Steve: Same thing as yesterday.
Officer at port: You and your client wish to make a temporary exit from the port?
Steve: *That* is right.
Officer at port: Name?
Steve: Ha - Harry Morgan.
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Soundtracks

"Hong Kong Blues"
(1939) (uncredited)
Written by Hoagy Carmichael
Performed by Hoagy Carmichael
© 1939 (Renewed) Frank Music Corp.
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Battered Bogart meets 'The Look'
16 November 2003 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

"To Have and Have Not" is notable mainly for an electric first teaming of soon-to-be marrieds Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and this free adaptation of a Hemingway story gives the stars plenty of time to shine. Bacall in particular steals the show with her checkered suits and her husky voice 'You know how to whistle, don't you? Put your lips together and blow.'

'The Look' was certainly an accurate description of this fine lady's first screen appearance. In support is comical Walter Brennan, as Bogart's drunken pal. Most memorable are the sequences where Bacall 'sings' (according to legend with the vocal help of Andy Williams!) to Hoagy Carmichael's accompaniment; and the lazy, sexy repartee between the two leads. A sizzling 40s confection from the great Howard Hawks.


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