Talk:To Have and Have Not

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[edit] This legendary novel

We read, Legend has it that Hemingway wrote the book as part of a contractual obligation and hated it.

Surely this legend has been investigated by now. Couldn't somebody with a copy of an authoritative Hemingway biography on his or her shelf look it up and rewrite more straightforwardly? -- Hoary 04:04, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

"Citation needed" tag added, a year later. Tempshill 05:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bogey, Bacall, etc etc

A large percentage of earlier forms of the article was not about the novel but was instead about the Furthman/Faulkner/Hawks film, which pays little more than lip-service to the novel. (Despite Warner Brothers' rather desperate attempt to cash in on Hemingway's fame -- see the unintentionally ludicrous trailer, provided on the DVD.) I copied and pasted this material to To Have and Have Not (film). I hope nobody objects. -- Hoary 04:04, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

[edit] No guns.

"To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain who runs contraband and guns between Cuba and Florida." Harry Morgan does not run guns. He owns a gun, but there is never anything mentioned in the novel about him running them.

Removed. Tempshill 05:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)