“To Have and Have Not introduces Lauren Bacall, in her first film. She’s an arresting personality. She can slink, brother, and no fooling!
“The film deals with the intrigue centering around the island of Martinique, owned by France, and the plotting that ensued there prior to its ultimate capitulation to Allied pressure. Bogart is an American skipper who hires out his boat to anyone who has the price. When he becomes involved in the local Free French movement, the story becomes woven around him, at times in cops-and-robbers fashion.
“Bogart is in his usual metier, a tough guy who, no less, has the facility of making a dame go for him, instead of he for her. That’s where Bacall comes in.” - Variety, 1944
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