To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not
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Humphrey Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall star in this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's wartime adventure. William Faulkner contributed to the fabulous screenplay. With Bacall''s legendary siren line: "You know how to whistle, don''t you, Steve? You just put your lips together...and blow." Howard Hawks---USA---1945---101 mins.

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A cigar is indeed sometimes just a cigar, but here a cigarette is a stand-in for what this 1944 film could not explicitly show. Lit, puffed, shared, it is an essential prop in the foreplay between the Humphrey Bogart and the Lauren Bacall characters. Based loosely on Hemingway’s 1937 novel and directed by Howard Hawk, “To Have and Have Not” invites comparison with “Casablanca” (1942), a comparison not generally in its favor. Again we encounter Bogart as a cynical American ex-pat, living in the midst of French-accented conspirators--this time it’s Vichy-controlled Martinique in 1940--and minding his own business. Then the sultry femme sashays into his life. That Bacall, in her debut film role, sashayed also into the life of her leading man, initiating an enduring off-screen romance, is well known, and our knowledge of this great love inevitably influences our view of the film. In fact Bacall as a down-on-her-luck adventuress, stranded in Martinique, is an inspired bit of miscasting. Asked to view this nineteen-year-old as a jaded woman of the world, living on cigarettes, booze, and purloined wallets, we see instead a beautiful ingénue, playing dress-up and trying her darnedest to match the knowing cynicism of her mid-forties co-star. Clearly, she’s no Marlene Dietrich. But her effort generates sympathy, and we begin to see her as the Bogart character sees her, a decent kid, in over her head, trying to navigate a tough world. This is a good film, but with flaws, including a too abrupt ending and the utter embarrassment of Bacall’s singing (with the inimitable Hoagy Carmichael). Bogart though is in fine form, as is Walter Brennan as his gin-soaked friend. Theirs is a long, event-filled friendship, recalling the Bogart-Dooley Wilson friendship in Casablanca. Will it survive the new woman in Bogart’s life?

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