To Have and Have Not

UPC: 012569676862

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Suitable for Children]

Summary: Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone is "Ever get stung by a dead bee?" While in port, Harry is approached by Free French activist Gerard (Marcel Dalio), who wants to charter Harry's boat to smuggle in an important underground leader. Adopting his usual I-stick-my-neck-out-for-no-one stance, Morgan refuses. Later on, he starts up a dalliance with Marie Browning (screen newcomer Lauren Bacall), an attractive pickpocket. In order to help Marie return to America, Harry agrees to Gerard's smuggling terms. He uses his boat to bring resistance fighter De Bursac (Walter Molnar) and De Bursac's wife Helene (Dolores Moran) into Martinique. The Vichy police, suspecting that something's amiss, hold Morgan's pal Eddie hostage, tormenting the poor rummy by denying him liquor. Predictably, Morgan comes to Eddie's rescue and manages to escape Martinique, with the delectable Marie as cozy company. In the hands of director Howard Hawks and screenwriters Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, the end result bore only a passing relation to the original story by Ernest Hemingway: instead, it was a virtual rehash (but a good one!) of the recently released Casablanca, replete with several of that film's cast members. The film's enduring popularity is primarily -- if not solely -- due to the sexy chemistry between Bogart and Bacall, especially in the legendary "You know how to whistle, don't you?" scene. The most salutary result of To Have & Have Not was the subsequent Bogart-Bacall marriage, which endured until his death in 1957. It's widely believed that Lauren Bacall's singing voice was dubbed in by a pre-puberty Andy Williams; this is not true. For the record, a more faithful-to-the-source cinemadaptation of the Hemingway original was filmed in 1950 as The Breaking Point. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Acting – National Board of Review

Features: ccNew making-of featurette A Love Story: The Story of to Have and Have Not
Classic cartoon: Bacall to Arms
Lux Radio Theater production with the 2 stars
Theatrical trailer

To Have and Have Not

Format: DVD

Release Date: 07/25/2006

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 100 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- To Have and Have Not
1. Credits [1:33]
2. Boat for Hire [3:36]
3. Unlucky Johnson [5:42]
4. Anybody Got a Match? [3:43]
5. Am I Blue? [1:52]
6. Catching a Thief [3:01]
7. Crowded Room [3:23]
8. Shooting Spree [3:38]
9. Objectionable Tones [5:47]
10. The Lady's Thirsty [2:53]
11. Feeling Cheap [4:25]
12. How to Whistle [4:03]
13. A Paying Job [2:17]
14. Nice While It Lasted [2:52]
15. Stowaway [2:41]
16. Unsteady As She Goes [2:42]
17. Targets in the Dark [4:36]
18. Needed Again [4:43]
19. Operation Bullet Removal [5:54]
20. Screwy Dame's Apology [3:12]
21. Unseen Strings [3:03]
22. A Payoff for Steve? [4:22]
23. Hong Kong Blues [2:20]
24. Not His Fight Yet [5:09]
25. How Little We Know [3:01]
26. Hoe Close You Came [4:48]
27. Leaving Time [4:29]

Brendon Hanley

A masterful blend of comedy, romance, and action, Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not is filled with the director's signature situations and relationships. The characters could have been lifted from any one of a number of Hawks films: a strong, stoic hero (Humphrey Bogart), a clueless sidekick (Hawks regular Walter Brennan), and a bold, sexually-charged heroine (Lauren Bacall, in her screen debut). A few scenes even recur in the director's other films, such as the classic, post-kiss line, "It's even better when you help." Jules Furthman and William Faulkner loosely adapted the screenplay from an Ernest Hemingway novel; though the setting of To Have is the Caribbean, the characters and Bogart's unselfish transformation is clearly reminiscent of 1942's Casablanca. Hawks would exploit the tremendous chemistry between Bogart and Bacall again in his next film, 1946's The Big Sleep; the two stars married in the interim. ~ Brendon Hanley, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Jean de Briac  Actor 
Chef Joseph Milani  Actor 
Harold Garrison  Actor 
Adrienne D'Ambricourt  Actor 
Maurice Marsac  Actor 
Elzie Emanuel  Actor 
George Sorel  Actor 
Kanza Omar  Actor 
Pedro Regas  Actor 
Roger Valmy  Actor 
Eugene Borden  Actor 
Jack Chefe  Actor 
Marguerite Sylva  Actor 
George Suzanne  Actor 
Suzette Harbin  Actor 
Crane Whitley  Actor 
Ronnie Rondell  Actor 
Marcel dela Brosse  Actor 
Emmett E. Smith  Actor 
Oscar Loraine  Actor 
Louis Mercier  Actor 
Frank Johnson  Actor 
William Faulkner  Screenwriter 
Leo F. Forbstein  Composer (Music Score) 
Jules Furthman  Screenwriter 
Howard Hawks  Director 
Howard Hawks  Producer 
Max Steiner  Composer (Music Score) 
Franz Waxman  Composer (Music Score) 
Humphrey Bogart  Actor 
Walter Brennan  Actor 
Lauren Bacall  Actor 
Dolores Moran  Actor 
Dan Seymour  Actor 
Hoagy Carmichael  Actor 
Walter Molnar  Actor 
Marcel Dalio  Actor 
Sheldon Leonard  Actor 
Walter Sande  Actor 
Aldo Nadi  Actor 
Paul Marion  Actor 
Patricia Shay  Actor 
Pat West  Actor 
Sir Lancelot  Actor 

Country: USA