To Have and Have Not (1944)

Director:

Howard Hawks

Writers:

Jules Furthman (screenplay) and
William Faulkner (screenplay)
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Release Date:

20 January 1945 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Music | Romance | Thriller | War

Tagline:

At Last! Bogart makes love his kind of woman !

Plot:

Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire...

Plot Keywords:

Martinique | Fugitive | Alcoholic | Singer | Island

Cast

Humphrey Bogart	...	Harry 'Steve' Morgan
Walter Brennan	...	Eddie
Lauren Bacall	...	Marie 'Slim' Browning
Dolores Moran	...	Mme. Hellene de Bursac
Hoagy Carmichael	...	Cricket
Sheldon Leonard	...	Lt. Coyo
Walter Szurovy	...	Paul de Bursac (as Walter Molnar)
Marcel Dalio	...	Gerard (Frenchy)
Walter Sande	...	Johnson, fishing customer
Dan Seymour	...	Capt. M. Renard
Aldo Nadi	...	Renard's bodyguard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Audrey Armstrong	...	Dancer (uncredited)
Joy Barlow	...	(uncredited)
Eugene Borden	...	Quartermaster (uncredited)
James Burross	...	Bit part (uncredited)
Jack Chefe	...	Guide (uncredited)
Louise Clark	...	Waitress (uncredited)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt	...	Cashier (uncredited)
Jean De Briac	...	Gendarme (uncredited)
Marcel De la Brosse	...	Sailor (uncredited)
Fred Dosch	...	Gaulist (uncredited)
Alphonse Du Bois	...	Bit (uncredited)
Elzie Emanuel	...	Black urchin (uncredited)
Fred Farrell	...	Headwaiter (uncredited)
Lance Fuller	...	Bit part (uncredited)
Harold Garrison	...	Black urchin (uncredited)
Janette Grae	...	Rosalie (uncredited)
Suzette Harbin	...	Waitress (uncredited)
Margaret Hathaway	...	Waitress (uncredited)
Frank Johnson	...	Bit part (uncredited)
Hal Kelly	...	Detective (uncredited)
Sir Lancelot	...	Horatio (Queen Conch crewman) (uncredited)
Keith Lawrence	...	Flirtatious Frenchman (uncredited)
Oscar Loraine	...	Bartender (uncredited)
Lou Marcelle	...	Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Paul Marion	...	Beauclere (Gaulist) (uncredited)
Maurice Marsac	...	Gaulist (uncredited)
Louis Mercier	...	Gaulist (uncredited)
Chef Milani	...	Chef at Marquis Hotel (uncredited)
Gussie Morris	...	Waitress (uncredited)
Kanza Omar	...	Waitress (uncredited)
Jack Passin	...	Flirtatious Frenchman (uncredited)
Ron Randell	...	Naval ensign (uncredited)
Pedro Regas	...	Civilian (uncredited)
Margaret Savage	...	Waitress (uncredited)
Patricia Shay	...	Mrs. Beauclere (uncredited)
Milton Shockley	...	Bit part (uncredited)
Emmett Smith	...	Emil (Marquis Hotel bartendr) (uncredited)
George Sorel	...	French officer (uncredited)
George Suzanne	...	Gaulist (uncredited)
Marguerita Sylva	...	Cashier (uncredited)
Roger Valmy	...	Flirtatious Frenchman (uncredited)
Pat West	...	Bartender (uncredited)
Crane Whitley	...	Gaulist (uncredited)
Edith Wilson	...	Black woman (uncredited)
Jack Winslowe	...	Bit part (uncredited)

Directed by
Howard Hawks

Writing credits
Jules Furthman		(screenplay) and
William Faulkner		(screenplay)
Ernest Hemingway		(novel) uncredited
Cleve F. Adams		uncredited
Whitman Chambers		uncredited

Produced by
Howard Hawks	....	producer
Jack L. Warner	....	executive producer

Original Music by
William Lava		(uncredited)
Franz Waxman		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Sidney Hickox		(as Sid Hickox)

Film Editing by
Christian Nyby

Art Direction by
Charles Novi

Set Decoration by
Casey Roberts

Costume Design by
Milo Anderson		(gowns)

Makeup Department
Perc Westmore	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Eric Stacey	....	unit manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jack Sullivan	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Robert Vreeland	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department
Oliver S. Garretson	....	sound
Edward Ullman	....	sound recordist (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Roy Davidson	....	special effects director
Rex Wimpy	....	special effects

Stunts
Harvey Parry	....	stunts (uncredited)
George Suzanne	....	stunts (uncredited)

Music Department
Leo F. Forbstein	....	musical director
Leonid Raab	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Other crew
Louis Comien	....	technical advisor
Meta Carpenter	....	script supervisor (uncredited)
Frederick De Cordova	....	dialogue director (uncredited)
Lance Fuller	....	stand-in (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Warner Bros. Pictures (as Warner Bros.-First National Pictures)

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1944) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1952) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Dominant Pictures Corporation (1956) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• United Artists Television (1972) (USA) (TV)
• Warner Home Video (1989) (West Germany) (VHS)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1990) (USA) (VHS)
• Turner Entertainment (1990) (USA) (VHS)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1991) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Warner Home Video (2000) (USA) (VHS)
• Argentina Video Home (2004) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Argentina Video Home (2004) (Argentina) (VHS) (re-release)
• Warner Bros. (2004) (Argentina) (all media) (re-release)
• Warner Home Video (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Living Colour Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Sociedade Importadora de Filmes (SIF) (Portugal)
• Warner Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (UK) (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G (TV rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | Argentina:Atp | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Approved (certificate #10052) | Canada:PG (video rating) | South Korea:12 (2003) | Finland:K-16 (original rating) | Finland:S (re-rating) | Germany:12 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | UK:PG (video rating) (1988) (uncut)

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall fell in love during production. Director Howard Hawks afterward said that it was actually Bacall's character Marie that Bogart had fallen for, "so she had to keep playing it the rest of her life." However, it has also been said that Hawks - who was something of a womanizer, and who had a fling with Dolores Moran during the shooting of the film - was jealous and frustrated that Bacall had fallen for Bogart and not for Hawks himself.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Morgan throws water at Eddie, the bucket is obviously empty - noticeable both in the way it's handled, and in a momentary glimpse of the insides before the camera cuts to Eddie.

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.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Coupling: My Dinner in Hell (#2.2)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Am I Blue?

Whistling On Martinique

The screen adaption of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not enjoys its place in cinematic history because it is the first screen teaming of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Turns out to have been a personal milestone for the both of them as well.

I was watching my VHS copy of To Have and Have Not today and included was the movie trailer and in it Warner Brothers announced it was introducing two exciting new screen personalities, Lauren Bacall and Dolores Moran. Ms. Moran was pretty enough and gave a nice performance as the wife of the resistance leader, but some careers take off and some don't. Didn't hurt Lauren that she married her leading man either.

The location of our story is Martinique right after the fall of France in 1940. As a French colonial possession Martinique fell into the hands of the Vichy collaborationist government. They didn't get free of them until 1943, months after the Germans occupied all of France in November of 1942.

Humphrey Bogart is an expatriate American along the lines of his Richard Blaine character in Casablanca. He doesn't own a swank nightclub, he's just got a charter fishing boat that lives on and runs with an alcoholic pal, Walter Brennan. But like in Casablanca, a shooting in a nightclub of his client Walter Sande gets him involved with the local Vichy police and the politics of the island.

It also gets him involved with Lauren Bacall who's just looking for a way to get back to the USA. She's not above a little light fingered action to help herself, but all that does is get her introduced to Bogey. And their sizzling scenes made cinematic history.

To Have and Have Not is fortunate to have the presence of Hoagy Carmichael one of the greatest musical talents America ever produced. He plays Cricket, the club piano player and he sings and plays Hong Kong Blues one of his greatest songs. Hoagy also wrote for this film, How Little We Know, which Bacall sings for her supper.

Dan Seymour and Sheldon Leonard play a couple of especially smarmy Vichy police officials. They have the upper hand until the very end when tables get turned rather suddenly. The only two film I've ever seen something turn that quickly is John Ford's Wagonmaster and the Richard Widmark police drama, Madigan. You can only push Bogey just so far.

Even in revivals today when Lauren Bacall tells Bogey all he need do is whistle and she'll come running, the whistles of affection will go up in theater. As well they should.