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
To Have and Have Not (film) This quote is ranked at #34 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list. "To Have and Have Not" is noted for its similarity to earlier films "Casablanca" (1942) and "Morocco" (1930) and "Across the Pacific" (1942). There are some similarities to the plot of the earlier "Casablanca" (1942). Other changes tended in the same direction, such as the introduction of a sympathetic piano player as an important supporting character. Carmichael's Cricket was not in the Hemingway book, and parallels Dooley Wilson's Sam in "Casablanca". Several cast members from "Casablanca" also appear in the film; apart from Bogart and Dalio (Emil