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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301978118
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6301978110
Label: Warner Home Video (M
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video (M
Publication Date: 1987-06
Publisher: Warner Home Video (M
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 23353
Studio: Warner Home Video (M
Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 1945
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Yes, it's true: you can virtually see Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall falling for each other in this Howard Hawks variation on Casablanca but adapted from--as legend has it--Ernest Hemingway's self-declared 'worst novel.' (The story goes that Hawks told Hemingway he could make a movie of the author's least work, and Hemingway gave him the rights to this story.) The script by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman actually makes this one of Hawks's and Bogart's most interesting and often exciting films. Bogart plays a boat captain who reluctantly agrees to help the French Resistance while wooing chanteuse Bacall. Hoagy Carmichael, wry at the piano, adds a delicious accent to an already wonderful mood. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Lesser Bogart vehicle
I was disappointed with this filming of the Hemingway story at a number of levels. The performances of Bogart and Bacall were the only signs of life in this otherwise dull and unimaginative film. The direction of Howard Hawks is largely to blame. While his early work has a certain excitement appropriate to its subject matter, by the late 30s he was already exhibiting signs of his worst excesses in films like "Bringing Up Baby" and "Only Angels Have Wings".
"To Have and Have Not" isn't ... Read More
Rating:  - On My Must-Have List
No, it's not CASABLANCA - that's kinda the point. It's a smaller, more precious version of essentially the same story line, and it's got Bogie falling head over heels for Bacall right in front of your eyes. Okay okay, so she doesn't sing that well - who needs singing when you've got a face like that? A classic. An essential.
Rating:  - To Have and Have Not
The first pairing of Bogart & Bacall is electric, the on-screen chemistry is undeniable. Of course, we have hindsight now & we know that they did have an affair & that they did get married in real life. Bacall's first performance as a mere 19 year old is fascinating & magnetic.
The movie is based on an Ernest Hemingway novel on the same name. The director, Howard Hawks, had been wanting to make a movie based on a Hemingway work for years & he finally got to do this ... Read More
Rating: - Bogart and Becall, Together for the first time...
Howard Hawks' 1944 "To Have and Have Not" would have been a first rate movie by most measures, but owes much of its continuing notoriety to the smouldering filmwork of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, paired in the movie and soon to be paired in real life.
"To Have and Have Not" is set in Martinique in 1940. France has fallen to the Germans, and the locals in this French colony are picking sides. Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart), a stubbornly independent boatman who does fishing charters ... Read More
Rating: - To Have and Have Not
Any time Humphrey Bogart stars in a film you know it's going to be good.
The movie was excellent & would recommend it to anyone.
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