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The Breaking Point

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1hr 37min

Genre:

Drama

Release:

1950

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Starring:

John Garfield, Phyllis Thaxter, Patricia Neal ...more

Synopsis: This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first version, though it still is far from faithful to its source. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, who has metamorphosed from Hemingway's gun-runner to an ex-PT boat captain, now running a charter boat service in Southern California. Deeply in debt, Morgan agrees to smuggle aliens and later tries to sneak a bunch of gangsters out of the country. By the time he's been given a wake-up ... Full Synopsis

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	Craig Butler, AMG Review Truer to its Ernest Hemingway source than the previous film version, The Breaking Point is a sadly neglected little gem that deserves to be wider known. It's not a great film, but it's an effecting and often powerful piece of cinema that benefits greatly from both John Garfield's sterling lead performance and Michael Curtiz's assured and imaginative direction. Not that the screenplay isn't worth mentioning, ... Full Review

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	John Garfield Harry Morgan Phyllis Thaxter Lucy Morgan Patricia Neal Leona Charles Juano Hernandez Wesley Park

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	Key Largo (1948) To Have and Have Not (1944)

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