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The Breaking Point is a 1950 American film noir crime drama directed by Michael Curtiz and the second film adaptation of the 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not (the first one having featured Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall).
The Breaking Point: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez. An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Michael Curtiz
- 1950-10-06
In his next to last movie, John Garfield starred in The Breaking Point (1950), a film based on Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not and directed by Michael Curtiz.
A charter-boat captain winds up in the middle of a syndicate shootout after transporting illegal immigrants.
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- John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
- Michael Curtiz
- Drama
Overview. A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals. Michael Curtiz. Director. Ernest Hemingway.
The Breaking Point is a 1950 American film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and the second film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not. It stars John Garfield (in his second to last film role before his death) and Patricia Neal.