Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

To Have and Have Not
1944
****½
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael

In 1940 the war in France has reached the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. Bogart plays a captain of a fishing boat who wants to go about his business and not take sides. This highly entertaining romantic drama is loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's novel. Lauren Bacall makes her memorable debut.