Review – To Have and Have Not

Despite the source story by Ernest Hemingway and the script co-written by William Faulkner, this is primarily a Humphrey Bogart vehicle evocative of some the actor’s previous successes, particularly Casablanca. Bogart plays an American expat running a business in French territory, thumbing his nose at authority and trying to straighten out his complicated love life. Sure, it’s fishing charters rather than a club, Martinique rather than Morocco, and Lauren Bacall rather than Ingrid Bergman. Still, it’s somehow all too familiar. On the other hand, it packs enough fresh, Hemingway touches to make it stand up on its own. Mildly amusing