To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not (1944) starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan. Directed by Howard Hawks. Casablanca wanna-be is notable as Bacall's film debut. Bacall and Bogie fell in love both on- and off-screen in this wartime drama, which has Bogart playing boat owner Harry Morgan, who gets involved with the Free French in Martinique in 1940. Brennan is a standout as Morgan's always-drunk friend, Eddie, a good man in spite of himself. (The DVD offers English subtitles, as well as closed captions.) Grade: B