To Have and Have Not [Blu-ray]

Overview

In the 1944 screen production of To Have and Have Not, Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone is "Ever get stung by a dead bee?" While in port, Harry is approached by Free French activist Gerard (Marcel Dalio), who wants to charter Harry's boat to smuggle in an important underground leader. Adopting his usual I-stick-my-neck-out-for-no-one stance, Morgan refuses. Later on, he starts up a dalliance with Marie Browning (screen newcomer Lauren Bacall), an attractive pickpocket. In order to help Marie return to America, Harry agrees to Gerard's smuggling terms. He uses his boat to bring resistance fighter De Bursac (Walter Molnar) and De Bursac's wife Helene (Dolores Moran) into Martinique. The Vichy police, suspecting that something's amiss, hold Morgan's pal Eddie hostage, tormenting the poor rummy by denying him liquor. Predictably, Morgan comes to Eddie's rescue and manages to escape Martinique, with the delectable Marie as cozy company. In the hands of director Howard Hawks and screenwriters Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, the end result bore only a passing relation to the original story by Ernest Hemingway: instead, it was a virtual rehash (but a good one!) of the recently released Casablanca, replete with several of that film's cast members. The film's enduring popularity is primarily -- if not solely -- due to the sexy chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, especially in the legendary "You know how to whistle, don't you?" scene. The most salutary result of To Have and Have Not was the subsequent Bogart-Bacall marriage, which endured until his death in 1957. It's widely believed that Lauren Bacall's singing voice was dubbed in by a pre-puberty Andy Williams; this is not true. For the record, a more faithful-to-the-source cinemadaptation of the Hemingway original was filmed in 1950 as The Breaking Point.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/19/2016
UPC:	0888574396053
Original Release:	1944
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00

Special Features

Bacall to Arms (1946); vintage Merrie Melodies short; A love story: the story of To Have and Have Not; Lux Radio Broadcast, starring Bogart and Bacall ; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Humphrey Bogart	Harry Morgan
Lauren Bacall	Marie Browning
Walter Brennan	Eddie
Dolores Moran	Helene De Bursac
Hoagy Carmichael	Cricket
Walter Molnar	Paul De Bursac
Sheldon Leonard	Lt. Coyo
Marcel Dalio	Gerard
Walter Sande	Johnson
Dan Seymour	Capt. M. Renard
Aldo Nadi	Bodyguard
Paul Marion	Beauclerc
Pat West	Bartender
Sir Lancelot	Horatio
Eugene Borden	Quartermaster
Elzie Emanuel	Black Urchin
Harold Garrison	Black Urchin
Major Fred Farrell	Headwaiter,Headwaiter
Pedro Regas	Civilian
Adrienne d'Ambricourt	Cashier
Marguerita Sylva	Cashier
Margaret Hathaway	Waitress
Louise Clark	Waitress
Suzette Harbin	Waitress
Gussie Morris	Waitress
Kanza Omar	Waitress
Margaret Savage	Waitress
Emmett Smith	Emil, the Bartender
Maurice Marsac	DeGaullist
Fred Dosch	DeGaullist
George Suzanne	DeGaullist
Louis Mercier	DeGaullist
Crane Whitley	DeGaullist
Hal Kelly	Detective
Jean De Briac	Gendarme
Chef Milani	Chef
Oscar Loraine	Bartender
Ronnie Rondell	Naval Ensign
Audrey Armstrong	Dancer
Marcel de la Brosse	Sailor
Edith Wilson	Black Woman
Patricia Shay	Mrs. Beauclerc
Janette Gras	Rosalie
Jack Chefe	Guide
George Sorel	French Officer
Roger Valmy	Flirtatious Frenchman
Keith Lawrence	Flirtatious Frenchman
Jack Passin	Flirtatious Frenchman
Alphonse Du Bois	Actor
James Burross	Actor
Milton Shockley	Actor
Jack Winslowe	Actor
Frank Johnson	Actor
Lance Fuller	Bit Part
Chef Joseph Milani	Chef
Franz Waxman	Composer
Leo Forbstein	Composer
Max Steiner	Composer

Technical Credits

Jules Furthman

William Faulkner

Ernest Hemingway

Whitman Chambers

Howard Hawks	Director,Producer
Jules Furthman	Screenwriter
William Faulkner	Screenwriter
Roy Davidson	Special Effects
Ernest Hemingway	Screenwriter
Whitman Chambers	Screenwriter
Jack L. Warner	Executive Producer
Paul Detlefsen	Special Effects
Oliver S. Garretson	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Rex Wimpy	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

A masterful blend of comedy, romance, and action, Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not is filled with the director's signature situations and relationships. The characters could have been lifted from any one of a number of Hawks films: a strong, stoic hero (Humphrey Bogart), a clueless sidekick (Hawks regular Walter Brennan), and a bold, sexually-charged heroine (Lauren Bacall, in her screen debut). A few scenes even recur in the director's other films, such as the classic, post-kiss line, "It's even better when you help." Jules Furthman and William Faulkner loosely adapted the screenplay from an Ernest Hemingway novel; though the setting of To Have is the Caribbean, the characters and Bogart's unselfish transformation is clearly reminiscent of 1942's Casablanca. Hawks would exploit the tremendous chemistry between Bogart and Bacall again in his next film, 1946's The Big Sleep; the two stars married in the interim.

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