To Have and Have Not

Is this a remake of Casablanca? No, but it sure does share a whole lot with Michael Curtiz’s film.  Humphrey Bogart is a cynical American in Vichy occupied territory who has to eventually take a side in the fight all around him through an unassuming French underground fighter known to the local authorities with a woman prominently involved. It even has a similar end where Bogart chooses his side, though I feel this story, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, is more obviously political in...