To Have and Have Not (film)

To Have and Have Not is a 1944 American romancewaradventure film with elements of Film Noir directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall in her film debut. Although it is nominally based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, the story was extensively altered for the film.

At the hotel he meets Marie Slim Browning Lauren Bacall, a young American wanderer, who sings How Little We Know with pianist Cricket Hoagy Carmichael in the bar. Harrys current charter client, Johnson Walter Sande, owes Harry 825 13,900 today, but Johnson says he cant pay till the bank opens the next day. Harry sees Slim pick Johnsons pocket, and forces her to give him the wallet which contains 1,400 in travelers cheques and a plane ticket for very early the next morning. On returning the wallet to Johnson, he demands that Johnson sign the travelers cheques to pay him immediately. But just then, there is a shootout in front of the hotel between police and the Resistance, and Johnson is killed by a stray bullet. The police take Harry and several others for questioning, and seize Harrys passport and money.Hotel owner Grard Marcel Dalio, known as Frenchy to English speakers, offers to hire Harry and his boat for one night to transport Resistance members Hlne Dolores Moran and Paul de Bursac Walter Surovy. Harry is broke and accepts. Meanwhile, a romance develops between Harry and Slim, who feels Harry changed his mind about the smuggling to help her out. ........

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