To Have and Have Not
(1944)
Directed by Howard
Hawks this film based on the novel of the same name stars Humphrey
Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall and Dolores Moran. In the
summer of 1940 a fishing boat captain in Martinique becomes embroiled
with a young woman and the French Resistance.
Claiming to be based
on the Hemingway novel of the same name this film is one of those
adaptations that is really in name only as it diverges from it's
source material so much. Much of the plot here is essentially a
lightweight version of Casablanca (1942) which is a real
disappointment given all the talent involved behind the scenes. Often
the on screen chemistry between Bacall and Bogart is sighted as
enough to carry this film but I am not so sure.
3/5
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