Howard Hawks, master of all genres, applies his trademark trademarkedness to this Hemingway tale of people and the sea and people at sea, and turns it into one saucy affair:
Hard Boiled Bogart Noir
To Have and Have Not
The Heights
Mon Feb 07 7:30
(1944, Howard Hawks, 35mm, 100m) "I just saw your test. We’ll have a lot of fun together.” So said Bogart to Bacall, and how right he was. Here, director Howard Hawks famously took Hemingway's worst story and turned it into a classic screwball noir, made perfect by the instant chemistry of his two leads.
Monday, February 7, 2011
the heights & take-up's monday bogart series: To Have and Have Not
This post is a little late, but, nonetheless, here are the details for tonight's screening of To Have and Have Not:
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