The Academy Award winning screenplay was faithfully adapted by screenwriter Horton Foote from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee - who had written a semi-autobiographical account of her small-town Southern life (Monroeville, Alabama), her widower father/attorney Amasa Lee, and its setting of racial unrest." He made matters worse, until Clark intervened, and a cleverly-timed Super-sneeze made Ricky""s second ball a smashing winner when it decisively knocked down all the pins.The rowdy, sweaty, tired group pops foam-spraying beer cans and carouses with drinking songs until quieted by the soft piano-playing of John - the proprietor of the bar.g., returning war veterans inThe Best Years of Our Lives (1946),anti-Semitic prejudice inGentleman""s Agreement (1947),treatment of the mentally-ill inThe Snake Pit (1948),and political demagogues inAll The King""s Men (1949).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.