To Have and Have Not

 Is Bogart as good as his leading lady co stars

Anyway I liked this one.

Bacall is hotter than the Carribean sun. 

The Queen Conch, is a great name for a boat. I thought about wearing a hat like Bogart but I did not want people to say Hello Sailor to me in the pub

Another look at Vichy France-here this is Martinque. It is said there is a French Carrier in the Harbour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_B%C3%A9arn

Travelers cheques were good in the 1940s. Interestingly we get an exchange rate 2500 francs is 50 US dollars. 

I think I have been bit by a dead bee. It was dying in my slipper

Curiously this feels like the first half of the film. I get it Bacall and Bogart are the stars and we want to see them sizzle. The ending seems to happen off scren

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Accident of Birth

A short story inspired by an idea of a German victory in WW1 Washington 1940. (Somewhere past the horizon) He would let the man speak. Anything else would be wrong. It would be petty. It would detract from the solemnity of the moment. Even at Weddings the Priest allowed for dissent How did the Vice president say it? ``The Buck stopped here'' For a moment The President felt a smithereens of sympathy for his guest. The Viscount Halifax. A tall spry Man. Born into a Big House. With a crippled hand. In another walk of life. That would have made Halifax a pauper. Yet an accident of Halifax birth. His name written on a baptismal certificate in some English country Parish. Made him a man of means The president found his memory leading him down the lanes again. Halifax and him, were alike. It was an accident of birth that had been his salvation too He had been spared, when all else where killed. He had survived. He remembered the city of his birth, full of ragge...
Read more