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Remake of To Have and Have Not?

posted 18 years ago by T-aerial
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This Film-Noir is a remake of "To Have and Have Not"?

[–] Diosprometheus 17 years ago

Yes and no. Neither film is faithful to Hemingway's 1937 novel which is about a fishing boat captain that runs contraband between Key West and Cuba. The Garfield film is a little more faithful to the plot than the Bogart film. Garfield's version involves smuggling illegal immigrants into California.

As for the Bogie version, Howard Hawks considered the Hemingway book to be "a bunch of junk" and basically kept only the name of it and some of the characters. Working with Hemingway's rival William Faulkner, the story is about the French resistance against the Nazis.

[–] bjnevin 16 years ago

I was watching a documentary on Garfield and in it, Patricia Neal said Hemingway felt The Breaking Point was the best film adaptation of any of his books.

[–] liscarkat (18381) a year ago

Not a remake. A different interpretation of the same source novel.