Rent To Have and Have Not (1944)
3.9 of 5 from 170 ratings
1h 36min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall makes her sizzling screen debut in the first of 4 films she made opposite Humphrey Bogart. he plays a cynical American expatriate swept up in the fighting of the French resistance - and swept off his feet by an alluring young drifter - Bacall. Set on the island of Martinique in 1940, the film features smouldering performances from the legendary couple.
- Actors:
- Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Szurovy, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour, Aldo Nadi, Audrey Armstrong, Juliette Ball, Joy Barlow, Eugene Borden, James Burross, Jack Chefe, Louise Clark, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Jean De Briac
- Directors:
- Howard Hawks
- Producers:
- Howard Hawks
- Writers:
- Ernest Hemingway, Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, Cleve F. Adams, Whitman Chambers
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A History of Cinemas in Films, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 3, Hitchcock in the 1940s, Holidays Film Collection, Introducing the Thesping Olympians, Romantic Film Pairings for Valentine's Day, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Howard Hawks, Top 10 Screen Kisses (1896-1979), Top 100 AFI Passions, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 14/01/2019
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing, French, Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- 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
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Reviews (2) of To Have and Have Not
A Classic - To Have and Have Not review by NM
This is a real Bogart/Bacall classic. A must see and then seen again. Bogart is on top form with a young Lauren Bacall matching him. The film has a great script, supporting cast and some weird and memorable music too. I've seen this film many times and the recent Blu-Ray version is just fantastic.
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Wartime Adventure. - To Have and Have Not review by Steve
A popular observation about this WWII action adventure is that it is written by two winners of the Nobel Prize. It's freely adapted from the Ernest Hemingway novel by William Faulkner. But what we see on screen is an inferior reshuffle of Casablanca, which has a much better script. Once again, Humphrey Bogart refuses to fight until he does.
He runs a fishing boat out of Martinique and (eventually) gets involved in the struggle between pro and anti-Nazi groups, and an enigmatic drifter played by an 18 year old Lauren Bacall in her screen debut. The political intrigue never catches fire, but the chemistry between the stars is explosive. And they married after the shoot.
It's most like the Hemingway source in that it's a sequence of loosely linked episodes. The best of them showcase the flirtation between Bogart and Bacall. The scene in which she famously purrs 'You know how to whistle don't you?' is pure innuendo mayhem. Unfortunately, the narrative runs out of gas, and doesn't have an ending.
Like many Howard Hawks films, it's about an assembly of individualists and emotional refugees who meet in the kind of exotic place where adventures happen. The plot isn't paramount, and the whole thing ends up feeling like a revue, with some decent musical numbers by Hoagy Carmichael. It's a lesser Hawks film, but worth seeing for the stars.
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