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) well as reducing Marie's drinking in the film. He also removed scenes in which Morgan appeared to be a murderer. Other additions included Marie becoming Morgan's sole romantic interest and Helen and her husband becoming fighters for the resistance. Finally, Faulkner made the time frame for the film three days instead of the many months depicted in the novel. Hawks intended to have the screenplay be loosely modeled on "Casablanca", which also starred Humphrey Bogart, hoping for the same success "Casablanca" had met at the box office. Production began on February 29, 1944, with only thirty-six pages of the screenplay