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) as noir, made during the first or "wartime" period of film noir. Some other scholars categorize the film as noir, while some don't believe Howard Hawks ever made a true "noir". The names of the characters in "To Have and Have Not" are directly related to the quality of the characters. Characters which are meant to elicit sympathy from the viewer are known by their nicknames: Steve, Slim, Eddie, Frenchy, and Cricket. In this way, Hawks creates the illusion of a character by devoiding it of past and present social roles that may be associated with a surname. Villains or