To Have and Have Not background creation
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Slim: What are you trying to do, guess her weight?
Steve: She's heftier that you think.
[lays down fainted woman he has been carrying]
Steve: Better loosen her clothes.
Slim: You've been doing all right.
[stops him from loosening clothes]
Slim: Maybe you'd better look after her husband.
Steve: He's not going to run out on me.
Slim: Neither is she.
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[first lines]
Title Card: Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France.
Title Card: Forte de France
Steve: Morning.
Officer at port: Good Morning, Captain Morgan. What can I do for you today?
Steve: Same thing as yesterday.
Officer at port: You and your client wish to make a temporary exit from the port?
Steve: *That* is right.
Officer at port: Name?
Steve: Ha - Harry Morgan.
Officer at port: Nationality?
Steve: Eskimo.
Officer at port: What?
Steve: American.