Don’t let the plot confuse you. “To Have and Have Not” isn’t about smuggling or the French Resistance, it’s about Bogie and Bacall falling in love on and off screen. You can hear the electricity crackle between Steve Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) and Marie Browning (Lauren Bacall) in the first of four films the two stars made together. Only 19 years old, this was Bacall’s first film, but she owns it. We can’t take our eyes off her anymore than Bogart could. And she delivers some of the best lines ever written for a leading lady: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? Just put your lips together and blow.” ( 100 min.)
Unrated - 1945
Starring:
Humphrey Bogart
Walter Brennan
Lauren Bacall
Hoagy Carmichael
Delore Moran
Sheldon Leonard
Marcel Dalio
Dan Seymour
Director:
Howard Hawks
Writers:
Jules Furthman (screenplay)
William Faulkner (screenplay)
Ernest Hemingway (novel) uncredited
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