To Have and Have Not

The unforgettable wartime romance that brought together Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and sparked Hollywood’s most enduring on-and-off-screen partnership., In World War II Martinique, a charter-boat owner agrees to a smuggling deal in an effort to help an attractive pickpocket get back to America. Later, when his first mate is taken hostage and pumped for information, the skipper must come to his rescue., 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 & 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., In World War II Martinique, a charter-boat owner agrees to a smuggling deal in an effort to help an attractive pickpocket get back to America., Academy Award winner Humphrey Bogart stars with Lauren Bacall in this classic film loosely based on Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway’s novel, To Have and Have Not., Drama starring Humphrey Bogart as a boatsman who strikes up an affair with the sultry Lauren Bacall. At the same time, he becomes embroiled in the actions of the French Resistance., The unforgettable wartime romance that brought together Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall., Classic drama in which an American with a boat-hiring operation on the French island of Martinique during WWII is reluctantly drawn into the conflict between the Nazi-sympathising police and Gaullist resistance fighters. When a sultry femme fatale arrives to help the resistance cause, he agrees to use his boat to make a dangerous journey.