1944 · drama · romance · noir
To Have and Have Not
Directed by Howard Hawks1h 40m1944
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Our read: To Have and Have Not (1944) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance · noir entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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