Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:41:53 -0500
Bill Crider wrote:
> I've always thought that the first half of TO HAVE
AND HAVE NOT was a
> pretty darn good start at a hardboiled novel. The
second half didn't hold
> up for me.
In an interview, Howard Hawks said he told Hemmingway he
could make a good movie out of Hemmingway's worst novel.
Hemmingway asked Hawks which novel he meant, and Hawks said
it was TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Hawks said Hemmingway agreed
THAHN was his worst book. The rest of us agree that Hawks
made a good movie out of it, but he only managed it by
basically throwing away the book, something I also did the
first time I tried to read it.
BobT
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