(Howard Hawks, 1944, USA, 100 min.)

In the first Bogie and Bacall film, which is also Lauren Bacall’s screen debut, director Howard Hawks seems to be trying to recapture some of the magic of 1942’s Casablanca and has more luck at it than he has any right to. Co-adapted by William Faulkner from an Ernest Hemingway novel, To Have and Have Not finds Bogie as Harry Morgan, a fishing boat operator, who encounters Bacall’s Slim Browning, a singer, while in Martinique.

Introduced by Cliff Froelich, Executive Director of Cinema St. Louis and Adjunct Professor of Film Studies at Webster University.