To Have And Have Not (Hawks, 1945): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 7pm
This 35mm presentation is in the Razor Sharp: The Fabulous Women of Howard Hawks season at BFI Southbank. The movie also screens on June 23rd. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
'Howard Hawks's 1944 answer to Casablanca (which
he was originally set to direct but lost to Michael Curtiz) is a far
superior film and every bit as entertaining. Humphrey Bogart, the
captain of a charter boat in a Nazi-held French colonial port, gradually
grows into the Hawksian ethos of action and responsibility as he
reluctantly enters World War II in order to protect a rummy (Walter
Brennan) and win a woman (Lauren Bacall). In many ways the ultimate
Hawks film: clear, direct, and thoroughly brilliant.'
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is a bit of Bacall and Bogey magic.
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