1950.....97 minutes   

John Garfield, Phyllis Thaxter, Patricia Neal. Directed By Michael Curtiz

This screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first version. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an ex-PT boat captain, now running a charter boat service in Southern California. Deeply in debt, Morgan agrees to smuggle aliens and later tries to sneak a bunch of gangsters out of the country. By the time he's been given a wake-up call by his conscience, Morgan has caused the death of a close friend. Patricia Neal and Phyllis Thaxter make the most of their limited footage as, respectively Harry Morgan's casual mistress and faithful spouse. Patricia Neal is alluring as ever in this top notch noir.