Film Noir Friday : Howard Hawks’ To Have and Have Not (1944)

(copyright Warner Brothers )

courtesy of rameyerguam’s channel on Youtube

Film Noir : crime, dames, men who seem to really enjoy hard-living, drinking, swearing, smoking and driving (and everyone has great clothes and wears hats!); this genre has it all, including ‘hearts full of passion, jealousy and hate’, but that’s another film and I digress…

Merriam Webster says it this way: a type of crime film featuring cynical malevolent characters in a sleazy setting and an ominous atmosphere that is conveyed by shadowy photography and foreboding background music

M-W doesn’t give you the truth of it, after all this is the genre where we find, surely one of the most romantic couples of all time…hey don’t call me Shirley

‘You Don’t Know Me’ – Buble,  Bogey & Bacall Montage from giulianadp’s fabulous youtube channel

Vanity Fair did a piece a year ago on the Top 10 Film Noir of all time..

This one doesn’t make the list, but it is my favorite Bogey and Bacall..

‘Am I Blue?’ Hoagy Carmichael and Lauren Bacall

Many thanks to Julie Stowe who has put together a fabulous site on Bogey and Bacall and film of the 40s

and please do not miss The Ravin’ Maven of Classic Film

A Warner Bros. – First National Picture
Produced and Directed by Howard Hawks
Screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Director of Photography, Sid Hickox
Music by Franz Waxman
Songs: “How Little We Know”
by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer
“Hong Kong Blues” by Hoagy Carmichael and Stanley Adams
“Am I Blue?” by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke
Running Time 100 minutes

CAST

Harry Morgan (Steve)……Humphrey Bogart
Marie Browning (Slim)…………Lauren Bacall
Eddie………………………….Walter Brennan

Helene de Brusac……………….Dolores Moran
Cricket……………………….Hoagy Carmichael
Paul de Brusac…………………Walter Molnar
Lieutenant Coyo……………Sheldon Leonard
Gerard…………………………….Marcel Dalio
Johnson………………………….Walter Sande
Captain Renard………………….Dan Seymour
Renard’s Bodyguard…………………Aldo Nadi
Beauclerc…………………………..Paul Marion
Mrs. Beauclerc……………………Patricia Shay
Bartender………………………..Emmett Smith
Horatio……………………………..Sir Lancelot

(copyright Warner Brothers ) Part One – further clips here

How about that Hoagy Carmichael – Hong King Blues