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Whistle Stopper - To Have and Have Not
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael
Directed By: Howard Hawks
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792837145
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 0792837142
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 100
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1945-01-20
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Summary: On My Must-Have List
Comment: 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.
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Summary: To Have and Have Not
Comment: 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 one. The movie itself is dramatically different than the novel. William Faulkner, a favorite of Hawks, was brought in to make changes to the script to make it more acceptable, not only to movie goers but also the Roosevelt administration. It was noted early on in the filming of the movie that something magical was going on on-screen between Bogart & Bacall, so the part of Slim (Bacall) was increased while the part of the other leading lady, Dolores Moran, was decreased.
The story takes place during WWII on the tiny island of Martinique in the Caribbean. Martinique was a French possession but France had already fallen to the Third Reich at the time of this story. An agent of Free France is sent in to rescue a man from Devil's Island. Bogart is hired to pick up the agent & delivered to Martinique to institute the plan. The agent is wounded so Bogey ends up doing more than he bargained for.
The story lingers on the budding romance between Bogart & Bacall. The rest of the story becomes secondary to this. Walter Brennan is featured in a role of a drunk who nearly ruins the plans of Bogey. There are many similarities between this movie & Casablanca, fans of Bogart should know this, many of the characters are even physically similar.
Enjoy one of Bogey's best movies & remember, "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."
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Summary: Bogart and Becall, Together for the first time...
Comment: 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 and a little gunrunning on the side, is too world-weary to get involved in politics. He and his alcoholic sidekick Eddie (in a superb supporting role by Walter Brennan) resolutely stay on the sidelines, until Harry gets involved with the young, sultry, and mysterious Marie (a 19 year-old Becall in her first movie role). The on-screen chemistry between Bogart and Becall is worth the movie all by itself, especially the famous scene in which Marie instructs Harry on how to whistle if he needs her. Thanks to Marie, Harry will finally pick sides and take a stand with the Resistance, leading to an exciting conclusion.
This movie is very highly recommended as an atmospheric thriller and one of Humphrey Bogart's better movies, made all the more enjoyable by the racy banter with Lauren Bacall.
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Summary: To Have and Have Not
Comment: 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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Summary: Bogart and Bacall
Comment: It doesn't get any better then this,except maybe (Casablanca.) Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall really turn it on in this one.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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