To Have and Have Not
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Short description
Set on the Caribbean island of Martinique during the Second World War, when the island was governed by representatives of Vichy France, the film follows Harry Morgan, an American who runs a charter fishing boat with his hard-drinking mate Eddie. With the war disrupting business and a client refusing to pay what he owes, Harry is drawn into work for the French Resistance, and his involvement deepens after he meets Marie Browning, an American woman stranded on the island. The story is based on Ernest Hemingway's novel.
Howard Hawks directed and produced the film, the eighth of the nineteen features he directed, following Ball of Fire and preceding The Big Sleep. The screenplay was written by Jules Furthman, William Faulkner and Whitman Chambers. Humphrey Bogart stars as Harry Morgan, with Lauren Bacall as Marie Browning, Walter Brennan as Eddie, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael and Sheldon Leonard among the thirty-five credited cast members. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film had a worldwide box office of about 4 million dollars.
On TMDB it holds a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from 589 votes, while film critics gave it 8.1 out of 10 across 36 reviews, a warmer response than that of the wider audience. Running 100 minutes, it blends adventure, romance and wartime drama.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the funeral of her husband, actor Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) placed a whistle in his coffin. This was seemingly a reference to the famous line from the film where she says to him, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."
- The scene with the line "You know how to whistle…" is undoubtedly the most famous in the entire film. It was written by Hawks himself, not Hemingway or the screenwriters Jules Furthman (1888-1966) and William Faulkner (1897-1962). He wrote it for Lauren Bacall's screen test and initially didn't even think of using the line in the film. During the screen test, Bacall played the scene with John Ridgely (1909-1968) as her partner. After the screen test, Bacall was cast in the role, and Hawks asked William Faulkner to insert the line into the scene.
- Director Howard Hawks (1896-1977) bet Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) that he could make a good film even from the worst of all Hemingway's novels. Hawks chose the novel "To Have and Have Not" (1939) and won the bet, removing almost the entire novel from the film's plot and making the main characters younger than in the literary source.
- The script had to be rewritten, and in the new version, Bacall's role was significantly expanded to capitalize on public interest in the romance between Bacall and Bogart, which began simultaneously with the start of filming.
- While Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was preparing to play Eddie, his friend, sound effects artist Jack Foley (1891-1967), suggested he put a pebble in his boot. Brennan did so, hence his limp, which is indistinguishable from a real one.
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