RARA-AVIS: RE: Book/movie

From: Duane Spurlock ( duane@emazing.com)
Date: 17 Jan 2002


Bill < abc@wt.net> wrote:

<< Legend has it that Howard Hawks bragged to Hemingway that he could make a good movie out of Hemingway's worst book. Hemingway told him to give it a try with To Have and Have Not. Hawks made the movie, but it doesn't really have much to do with the book. William Faulkner worked on the screenplay.
>>

For some reason I'd thought that Leigh Brackett also worked on this film, but I think this was in production before her Hollywood work started. A quick www.imdb.com check sort-of verifies this.

--- Duane

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