Directed by Howard Hawkes
Screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner & Cleve F. Adams and Whitman Chambers
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Marcel Dalio, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Szurovy, Dolores Moran and Dan Seymour
Everyone knows the iconic that Bacall delivers about whistling. I thought I would have loved this as it was Bacall's big screen debut, but it left me adrift.
Martinique is the setting of the story during the early years of World War II. A fisherman, Harry Morgan (Bogart) is trying to make a living but with the war brewing times get hard. He is recruited by his buddy, Frenchy (Dalio) to help transport two French resistance fighters.
I did not know what to expect with this movie. The beginning of the movie is strange. Was it a comedy? No. You have Eddie (Brennan) as the drunk guy being the levity in the movie? I don't know. The movie is not that deep or depressing. It feels shallow. It's an intrigue movie that have a strange relationship between 22-year-old and a guy in his mid 40s.
Rating: 5/10
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