Martinique - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Martinique is the main setting of the 1944 film To Have and Have Not starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
  • The island is mentioned in the songs "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys, and "Uffington wassail" by Half Man Half Biscuit.
  • In the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, the characters of Angelique Bouchard Collins, Josette du Pres, and Josette's family are from Martinique.
  • Martinique was featured in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, and in the movie Sugar Cane Alley.
  • Setting of Caridad Bravo Adams' novel Corazón Salvaje.
  • In one or more of the Pink Panther movies, Chief Inspector Dreyfus threatens to have Inspector Clouseau reassigned to Martinique.
  • Much of the 1979 Italian thriller Concorde Affaire '79 took place on and around the island.
  • The Bugs Bunny cartoon 8 Ball Bunny saw Bugs and a showbiz penguin called Playboy stranded on Martinique.
  • "Martinique Blue" was a popular color used by automotive builder Pontiac, a division of General Motors, on 1978 Firebirds and Trans Ams. Also known as cowl tag color code 24.
  • Martinique is one of the hotel areas at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort a tropical island themed hotel in Walt Disney World.
  • In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Angelica (Penélope Cruz) while talking to Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), mentions that the last time he left her was at "La Martinique".
  • In Assassin's Creed III, Benjamin Church was trying to escape from Boston to get away from Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton until they caught him in Martinique.

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