To Have and Have Not
Hawks and Hemingway, Bogie and Bacall, most films would sink under this embarrassment of riches but the brilliant Howard Hawks not only juggles these heavy hitters, he ups the ante with a supporting cast that defines “colorful”—Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Brennan flesh out this tale of a freelance fisherman in wartime Martinique and the Yankee stunner who rhumbas into his life. Packed with too many iconic movie moments to list, the 1944 classic kicked off the Bogart/Bacall teaming in more ways than one—the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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About Michael Schlesinger
Michael Schlesinger was widely acknowledged as the dean of classic film distributors, having worked for more than 25 years at MGM, Paramount and Sony, keeping hundreds of vintage movies in theatrical release (and later DVD), and instigating the restoration of many more, including the completion of Orson Welles' 1942 documentary It's All True some 50 years later. Behind the camera, he wrote and produced the American version of Godzilla 2000, co-produced such Larry Blamire parodies as The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and Dark and Stormy Night, and has written, produced and directed several short films featuring the faux-1930s comedy team of Biffle and Shooster. No power on Earth would have ever convinced him that It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World was not the Greatest. Movie. Ever. Sadly, Michael passed away on the morning of January 9, 2025.
There was something deeply wrong with Bacall wanting to hook up with the desiccated Bogie…but try telling TCM that!
The Far Side once depicted classic movies starring snakes. A female snake tells a male one “You know how to crush a rat, don’t you? Just put your coils together and squeeze.”