Bogie and Bacall Weekend: to Have and Have Not February 25, 2011

Shown in 35mm on our big 50 ft wide screen. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan. Directed by Howard Hawks. 1944, 100 mins. Black and White. This is the movie that brought Bogart and Bacall together a!" both on screen and off. Bogart is the owner of a charter boat in Vichy-controlled Martinique. Approached by Free French activists, Bogart doesn't want to stick his neck out for them a!" until doing so will help Bacall. If the screenplay by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman owes as much to Casablanca as to the Hemingway novel they were adapting, it nevertheless is a terrific blend of romance and action leavened with comedy, and Howard Hawksa!! direction is, as usual, masterful. But what makes the film truly electric is the unmistakable chemistry that was boiling over for real between Bogart and Bacall as the cameras rolled.