To Have and Have Not Harry Morgan and Marie Browning. It was one of the influences for "Bold Venture", a 1951–1952 syndicated radio series starring Bogart and Bacall. The second film version, titled "The Breaking Point" (1950), was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars John Garfield and Patricia Neal with Juano Hernandez as Morgan's partner. The movie shifted the action to southern California and made Garfield a former PT Boat captain but is otherwise the most faithful to the original book. The third film version, titled "The Gun Runners" (1958), was directed by Don Siegel and stars Audie Murphy in the Bogart/Garfield role and Everett
To Have and Have Not (film) independent director Howard Hawks tried to convince Ernest Hemingway to write him a script, but Hemingway was not interested in working in Hollywood. Hawks insisted he could make a film from his "worst story". Although Hawks had a high regard for Hemingway's works in general, he considered "To Have and Have Not" to be his worst book, a "bunch of junk", and told Hemingway so. Hemingway and Hawks worked on the screenplay during the remainder of the fishing trip. Hemingway and Hawks had discussed that the film was not going to resemble the novel, and would rather tell the story