Dialog Similarities with 'Only Angels Have Wings' (1939)

Hawks would sometimes use certain scenes or similar dialog from his previous movies and use them in others. I've noticed this about To Have and Have Not. In Man's Favorite Sport, Hawks re-used the torn dress sequence in this film from Bringing Up Baby. I'm pretty sure Hawks also re-used past sequences or dialog in Rio Bravo.

"Dry your eyes baby, it's out of character."

I don't know if this was part of Faulkner's script, the actors improvising, or on-the-set last-minute rewrites, but I thought it was pretty cool. I'm pretty sure this was the result of a tip-of-the-hat, or a tribute, to the previous movie, "Only Angels Have Wings."

Hawks in his career loved re-using themes and motifs all across his films and To Have and Have Not and the later Rio Bravo form a loose trilogy with Only Angels Have Wings in that it's about a small group of men and what happens to it when a woman comes into it, in each case the results are different. The character played by Bogart is kind of like a relative to Cary Grant's Jeff Carter and both of them are probably descendants of John Wayne in Rio Bravo.

The sub-plot of Dolores Moran and her husband needing help from Harry and gang is also a repeat of a similar sub-plot in OAHW where Rita Hayworth and Richard Barthelmess come in all-of-a-sudden into their lives. In the initial draft, Dolores Moran was supposed to be an ex of Bogart's but that was rejected when people saw how well the chemistry worked between Bogart and Bacall.

More than Casablanca, To Have and Have Not is a re-working of Only Angels Have Wings from which Casablanca also seems to have stolen a few things from.


"Ça va by me, madame...Ça va by me!" - The Red Shoes

i just saw this movie a day after rio bravo - about 2 scenes were word for word, and each of them was still awesome and different