To Have and Have Not

To Have And Have Not (1944)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 89% of users liked it
    (11,559 ratings)

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… More

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Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Jules Furthman, William Faulkner
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
In Theaters
Oct 11, 1944 Wide
On DVD
Nov 4, 2003
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    The movie is entertaining in its own right, and representative of the era in which it was produced, but, aside from the legendary interaction between Bogart and Lauren Bacall, there are only moderate reasons to recommend the film.

  • Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter

    The scenes between Bogart and Bacall are so dazzlingly about attraction and sex that they encapsulate the whole magic of movies.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    As the hard-boiled professional fisherman who gives his ample ingenuity to a cause, Mr. Bogart is almost as impressive as he was as Rick, the Casablanca host.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow," said Lauren Bacall to Bogey in this entertaining follow-up to Casablanca, thus launching the onscreen (and offscreen) romance that made them a popular team in the 1940s.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    It owes more to Casablanca than it does to Hemingway.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Kristijonas F


    See this Humphrey Bogart classic for two and only two reasons: To witness with your very eyes the incredible sexual chemistry between the legendary actor and his stunning co-star Lauren Bacall (who he met for the first time during the shooting of this film and then went on to marry),… More

  • Graham J


    The first of two classic films Howard Hawks did with Bogart and Bacall contains great dialogue and great performances.

  • AJ V


    Okay, it's true that this movie is reminiscent of Casablanca because Bogart starts out neutral towards WWII and ends up helping the resistance, but this movie is great too. I loved it and I recommend it.

  • Stella D


    it's not casablanca or even my fave bogie-bacall film but it is their first and has plenty going for it: the terrific chemistry of the leads, the input of faulkner, hemingway and hawks and walter brennan as bogie's drunken first mate, eddie. and it makes me wanna sing with… More

  • Conner R


    I think everyone is strangely reminded of Casablanca while watching this, but I actually think they're two very different movies. Aside from Humphrey Bogart's Harry Morgan being in a foreign land, this is a lot different in terms of style and direction. I feel that this is a… More

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