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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
Salesrank: 28062
Released: April 25, 2006 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Yes, it's true: you can virtually see Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall falling for each other in To Have and Have Not (1945), Howard Hawks's variation on Casablanca but adapted from--as legend has it--Ernest Hemingway's self-declared "worst novel." (The story goes that Hawks told Hemingway he could make a movie of the author's least work, and Hemingway gave him the rights to this story.) The script by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman actually makes this one of Hawks's and Bogart's most interesting and often exciting films. Bogart plays a boat captain who reluctantly agrees to help the French Resistance while wooing chanteuse Bacall. Hoagy Carmichael, wry at the piano, adds a delicious accent to an already wonderful mood.
Bogart and Bacall were never more popular than in The Big Sleep, the 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, directed by Howard Hawks. Bogart plays private eye Philip Marlowe, who is hired by a wealthy socialite (Bacall) to look into troubles stirred up by her wild, young sister (Martha Vickers). Legendarily complicated (so much so that even Chandler had trouble following the plot), the film is nonetheless hugely entertaining and atmospheric, an electrifying plunge into the exotica of detective fiction. William Faulkner wrote the screenplay.
Dark Passage (1947) is a gimmicky film noir starring Bogart as an escaped criminal who undergoes plastic surgery and holes up at the home of Bacall's character while healing and preparing to prove his innocence. If you can last through the first half-hour of this thing--which is shot entirely from the subjective view of Bogart's bandaged face, which we don't see until later--you might find ample reason in the stars' performances to stick around for the conclusion. But director Delmer Daves (A Summer Place) tests a viewer's endurance with such an obvious, attention-getting ploy.
John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) directed Key Largo (1948), a smart thriller about a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) who holds a number of people hostage in a hotel in the Florida Keys during a tropical storm. Bogart is the returning war veteran who takes on the villains, and Bacall is on hand as one of the people on the wrong end of Robinson's gun. Somewhat similar in tone to To Have and Have Not this moody movie captures a certain despair offset by the bond between individuals united by common purpose. Claire Trevor won an Academy Award for her part as Robinson's alcoholic girlfriend. --Tom Keogh
Bogie & Bacall - The Signature Collection (The Big Sleep / Dark Passage / Key Largo / To Have and Have Not) (1946) Reviews:
The Humphrey Bogart Collection Review 
2009-09-13 - If you are going to buy a collection of some of the best Bogie movies than I strongly recommend this one! The real bonus is you have some great actors and actress in some of the roles! Then of course you will see Bacall playing opposite of Bogie and they sure light up the silver screen. Key Largo has always been a favorite of mine and it is included in this Signature Collection. It will be a great addition to any home movie collection.
Bogie & Bacall box set
2009-08-31 - Can't go wrong with any of these four titles. All the better that they're boxed together. All four are quite good but very different from each other. I think fans of these two film stars will give a variety of opinions as to which of the four is the best among them, which is to be expected with such great success, and with such a variety of different storylines and approaches by the directors & actors alike. It's a very nice collection of four truly entertaining films.
Bogart and Bacall-The Signature Collection
2009-07-15 - I LOVE Bogart and to see him act with the love of his life was a real treat. Two of these films-To Have and Have Not and Key Largo-should be in every Bogart fans' DVD collection. Unfortunately, The Big Sleep and Dark Passage do not measure up to the first two I mentioned, but are still interesting enough to take a look at.
A Five Plus!
2009-07-12 - A must have for any Bogie and Bacall fan! It has amazing picture quality on our fifty inch screen.............Like seeing it for the first time in a classic old movie house!
5-stars for 4 films with Bogie and Bacall
2009-06-16 - Wow, some of the reviews are long-winded, huh? Humphrey Bogart has been called the greatest screen actor in history and this collection won't dull that image. With stories from Chandler and Hemingway, a screenplay from William Faulkner, direction from John Huston and Howard Hawks and great portrayals from Bogart and Lauren Bacall, you get some of the best films of the 40's. You just can't go wrong and buying the box set saves time and money that you might have spent finding these gems as single releases.
..............notable collaborators
To Have and Have Not. Ernst Hemingway, William Faulkner, Howard Hawks
Key Largo. John Huston
The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler, Hawks
Dark Passage. Delmar Davis
Recommended to: All movie fans, Bogart fans, Bacall fans, film noir fans
