Murtaugh, realizing his friend wasn""t "crazy," invited him in for Christmas turkey dinner, along with his "friend" Sam the collie - resulting in a disastrous confrontation with the Murtaugh""s family cat Burbank.The remarkable film was greeted with the same kind of fanfare that Sam Peckinpah""s violentThe Wild Bunch (1969)received many years later.I changed my book at Boots....Just as I stepped out onto the pavement...Alec: Good morning.Laura: Oh, good morning.Alec: How""s the eye?Laura: Perfectly all right.How kind it was of you to take so much rouble.Alec: Nothing at all.It""s clearing up I think.Laura: Yes, it""s going to be nice.Alec: Well, I must be getting along to the hospital.Laura: Now I must be getting along to the grocers.Alec (wryly): What exciting lives we lead, don""t we?On a third weekly trip to town, Laura is expectant about meeting Alec again, but doesn""t.BackgroundTo Have and Have Not(1944) was director Howard Hawks"" wartime adventure masterpiece - a minor film classic loosely based upon part of Ernest Hemingway""s 1937 novel of the same name.A $20 dollar bill is slipped into Henry""s pocket as he meets mob boss Paulie""s notorious, "feared," but charismatically-magnetic hitman Jimmy Conway [the frame freezes on Jimmy""s face]:What Jimmy really loved to do, what he really loved o do was steal.