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   To Have and Have Not would be on my list, too.  I like those other two   
   also, but they are not my favorites.  I would also include:   
      
   Casablanca   
   The Maltese Falcon   
   The Big Sleep   
   We're No Angels (my favorite Christmas movie)   
   The Petrified Forest   
   Dead Reckoning   
      
   As for books vs. movies, I really like the movie The Big Sleep, but I also   
   like the book.  There were actually two versions of The Big Sleep.  The   
   first was filmed before the war ended and was closer to the book.  However,   
   the studio wanted to get its war films out before the war ended, so it got   
   shelved.  In the meantime, Laren Bacall got a part in a movie with a   
   horrible French actor.  It tanked.  So, they reshot and replaced several   
   scenes in The Big Sleep to play on the chemistry she had with Bogart.   
   Howard Hawks did not want her career tanking with the bad movie!   
      
   Sometimes, Turner Classic Movies will play the original version.   
      
   The book is my favorite and is written by my favorite author, Raymond   
   Chandler.  I would say I prefer the story in it a little better, but it is   
   difficult to beat Bogey and Bacall on-screen.  :)   
      
   Mike   
      
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