de Bursac appear together, their subliminal clash over "Steve" fairly screams "meow". Though her scenes with Bogart are electric even to this day, it's worth noting her chemistry with Dolores Moran near the end of the film.
Only a teenager at the time of filming, she looks to be about thirty, with dialog that belies her years. What's worth mentioning though is Bacall's brazen confidence in carrying out her role in what looks like a casting call mismatch. As most fans know, the legendary Bogey/Bacall team up began here, so I won't dwell on that. That's OK though, because each tableaux presents us with rich characterization and a sense that we know who these players are and what they're up to. Add the smoldering presence of Lauren Bacall in her screen debut, and you have the ingredients for an adventure film that almost plays out stronger in each of it's mini chapters than in the sum of it's parts. The Peter Lorre part is handled by Marcel Dalio as hotel owner Frenchy, while the Sydney Greenstreet presence is given to Dan Seymour, the smarmy Gestapo captain. Bogey's character Harry Morgan is once again an expatriate on foreign soil, though here he has no trouble calling himself an American. The comparisons to "Casablanca" are numerous and fans of Humphrey Bogart will have no trouble picking them out one by one. Each viewing of "To Have and Have Not" earns my greater appreciation of the film.
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