Curiously Disturbing: Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, As The New Captain Renard

Howard Hawk’s film “To Have and Have Not”, based upon the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, features the actor Dan Seymour playing the character of Vichy France’s Gestapo police chief Captain M. Renard during WWII on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Capt. Renard is a sinister, corrupt, and abusive brute who gets his comeuppance at the end of the film when Humphrey Bogart’s character, Harry ‘Steve’ Morgan, pistol whips him into arranging a safe escape off the island for Harry et al. An example of Capt. Renard’s methods is witnessed in the following bribe offered to Harry, of paying him $500 plus the $825 that Renard confiscated earlier, to betray two French Resistance fighters:

What is striking is the resemblance (in temperament, personae, as well as in physicality) between the character of Capt. Renard and the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa

Bahrain’s Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa as Captain Renard – Creepy!!!

bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, maybe better suited for role as Ahmed, the Doorman in Casablanca