To Have and Have Not (film) to 1952, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall participated in a weekly, half-hour radio adventure series called "Bold Venture", intended to be a spin-off of "To Have and Have Not". "Bacall to Arms", is a 1946 Looney Tunes short, spoofing scenes from "To Have and Have Not", and featuring "Bogey Gocart" and "Laurie Becool". It is included as a Special Feature on the DVD release of "To Have and Have Not". Notes Bibliography 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
The Big Sleep racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models. A figure like A. G. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" (1939) who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration. However susceptible film personalities were to blackmail, it was not the métier of book dealers." The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946