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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 1020
Released: July 25, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Help the Free French? Not world-weary gunrunner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old first-time film actress Lauren Bacall. Full of intrigue and racy banter (including Bacall's legendary 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 the Ernest Hemingway novel that inspired it. And it strongly resembles Casablanca: French resistance fighters, a piano-playing bluesman (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar much like Rick's Cafe Americaine. But first and foremost, it showcases Bogart and Bacall, carrying on with a passion that smolders from the tips of their cigarettes clear through to their souls.
Description of To Have and Have Not (Keepcase):
Yes, it's true: you can virtually see Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall falling for each other in this Howard Hawks 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. --Tom Keogh
To Have and Have Not (Keepcase) Reviews:
Good movie in itself 
2009-12-15 - The movie in itself is very well done, but I learned of it while reading the book HEMINGWAY'S KEY WEST by Stuart MacIver. In that book, he calls TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT "The KeyWest Book". Naturally, I thought that the setting would be in Key West, but that's not where it is.
Bogart-Bacall classic movie. 
2009-12-02 - Another in the series of classic Bogart-Bacall movies. It's a refreshing retro experience in film noir, when movies had fewer gimmics and more intreguing plot and dialogue. Viewing this film is a great escape back to an earlier, more simplistic life...
To Have and Have Not (Keepsake) DVD
2009-11-30 - I was very pleased with the condition and quality of this DVD. I have ordered several DVDs from Amazon in the past and all were of high quality. I would highly recommend Amazon as THE choice for ordering DVDs. The quality, price and delivery time are outstanding.
American romance and Vichy intrigue 
2009-11-15 - Set in Martinique in 1940 following the fall of France this story is a great one and well-adapted to Humphrey Bogart's film persona as a "tough guy with character." He plays an American caught up in the struggle between the Free French and the Vichy over who is going to run the island. Add Bacall as "Slim," and you've got a classic film.
to have and have not
2009-10-16 - I really loved it! It was great for so many reasons.It was a really well done story and dialogue co-writen by William Faulkner.Directed by Howard Hawks it could'nt miss and thank goodness that his wife saw Betty Becalls picture and insisted that he use her in the film.Needless to say,the movie public loved her and so did Humphrey Bogart.It was so obvious that they fell in love with each other and it made the film even better. I am a big fan of Bogart and it is one of his best movies.Walter Brennan,who could never ever disappoint,played one of the best characters of his career. I think that he won an academy award for his performance and if he didn't he should have.And it didn't hurt to have Hoagy Carmichael playing the piano and singing.It all adds up to one of the all time greats.
