To Have and Have Not (film) To Have and Have Not (film) To Have and Have Not is a 1944 American romance-war-adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name; however, the story was altered for the film. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall in her film debut; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio. The plot centers on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter which is complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France. Ernest Hemingway and Howard Hawks
What Made Her Do It? the film under supervision of Ota Yoneo. While contemporary criticism of the film includes film historian Donald Richie's perspective that the film is "a melodramatic potboiler," the film was a box-office success that lead to increased scrutiny and eventually government censorship of political messaging in films of the era. The film has been compared to radical German theater and Soviet-era propaganda films, though made by a commercial studio which embraced a tendency toward melodrama and vulgarity. What Made Her Do It? What Made Her Do It? () is a 1930 Japanese silent film directed by Shigeyoshi Suzuki, based on the