To Have and Have Not

original title:
To Have and Have Not
other titles:
(Haben und Nichthaben)
country / year of production:
USA / 1944
original length:
100 min. , black/white
premiere:
11 October 1944, New York City
genre:
Thriller
based on:
Ernest Hemingway. To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.
director:
Howard Hawks
film script:
Ernest Hemingway
producer:
cinematographer:
editor:
composer:
cast (role):
Humphrey Bogart , Walter Brennan
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plot synopsis:
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against their better judgement to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days.

keywords:
resistance, opposition , drugs , escape , women during wartime , island , insubordination
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Robin Wood. "To Have (Written) and Have Not (Directed)". In: Film Comment Vol. 9 (1973), 3, 30-35.
remarks:
The plot of Hemingway's novel is transfered to the Second World War.
availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD