The Breaking Point

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Date: January 01, 1950 to December 31, 1950
Dates Note: 1950
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: Ernest Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not
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35mm print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by Warner Bros. in association with The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City
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“Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper’s hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood’s second crack at Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. . . . Hewing closer to Hemingway’s novel than Howard Hawks’s Bogart-Bacall vehicle does, The Breaking Point charts a course through daylight noir and working-class tragedy, guided by Curtiz’s effortless visual fluency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield” (Criterion Collection). Garfield would make one more movie after this; he died of a heart attack in 1952, at age thirty-nine.

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