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
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