The Gun Runners

1958

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 993 993

fisherman gun runner

Plot summary

Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.

Director

Don Siegel Photo
Don Siegel

Top cast

Everett Sloane Photo
Everett Sloane as Harvey
Kenneth Gibson Photo
Kenneth Gibson as Gambler
Paul Birch Photo
Paul Birch as Sy Phillips
John Qualen Photo
John Qualen as Pop
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
758.99 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 2
1.38 GB
1920*1042
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mackjay2 7 / 10

Murphy, Siegel Shine in a Decent Hemingway Adaptation

Reviewed by ctomvelu1 6 / 10

Barnacle Bill he ain't

WWII hero and busy actor stepped into Bogart and Garfield's shoes for a third version of a Hemingway story, "To Have and Have not." The film is bare-bones, budget-wise, but makes good use of its Florida locations to tell the story of gun runners and romance among the the coastal folk. Murphy isn't half-bad in the lead role of a charter boat captain caught up in a smuggling scheme, although I could not quite get used to Murphy in a boat captain's hat (I was so used to seeing him in Army helmets and cowboy hats). Eddie Albert plays a very convincing bad guy, and the film is loaded with familiar faces of the period, including Paul Birch, John Qualen, Jack Elam, Herb Vigran and Everett Sloane. Worth a look, mainly for Murphy/
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