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- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
Summary During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
To Have and Have Not
7.4
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Summary During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
90
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A Casablanca-influenced love story set against a French Resistance backdrop in Martinique. [07 Nov 2003]
The dialogue is sharp, the direction first-rate, and the acting superb, but To Have And Have Not is undoubtedly best remembered for the on- and offscreen romance between Bogart and Bacall.
In many ways the ultimate Hawks film: clear, direct, and thoroughly brilliant.
What Mr. Hawks and his script-writers have done to Mr. Hemingway's tale is to shape it out of all recognition into a pattern of worldly intrigue.
To Have and Have Not is neither an action picture nor a Bogart picture. Its story is, in fact, just a loosely painted background for a kind of romance which the movies have all but forgotten about—the kind in which the derelict sweethearts are superficially aloof but essentially hot as blazes, and seem to do even their kissing out of the corners of their mouths.
The picture’s reason for being is Bacall, whose Marie “Slim” Browning slinks onto the screen asking Harry for matches and walks away with the entire movie.
Warners give the pic its usually nifty productional accoutrements, and that includes casting, musical scoring and Howard Hawks’ direction but the basic story is too unsteady.
User Score
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Generally Favorable
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Awards
Photoplay Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
