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The Breaking Point
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| The Breaking Point | |
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 movie poster |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Jerry Wald |
| Written by | Ernest Hemingway (novel To Have and Have Not) Ranald MacDougall |
| Starring | John Garfield Patricia Neal |
| Release date(s) | September 30, 1950 (U.S. premiere) |
| Running time | 97 min |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Breaking Point is the second film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not." The film, directed by Michael Curtiz, is considered more faithful to the novel than the 1940s version starring Humphrey Bogart.
Garfield plays Harry Morgan a pennyless fishing hire proprietor whose business is on the skids and whose family is feeling the economic pinch. He begins to work with a shady lawyer who persuades him to run illegal immigrants into California. When this goes wrong he comes even more under the influence of the lawyer who blackmails him into helping the escape of a gang of crooks who pull a racetrack heist.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| John Garfield | Harry Morgan |
| Patricia Neal | Leona Charles |
| Phyllis Thaxter | Lucy Morgan |
| Juano Hernandez | Wesley Park |
| Wallace Ford | F.R. Duncan |