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Jun 3, 2021 · “The Breaking Point” was the second version of Ernest Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not.” There were three films based on that plot and characters from 1944, 1950 and 1958. Warners bought the rights from Hemingway and made damned sure they got their money’s worth.
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On his and Wesley's latest multi-day fishing charter to Mexico, Harry gets stranded with no money to get him, Wesley and the Sea Queen back to the US. Running into shyster American lawyer F.R. Duncan, Harry, despite being law abiding, has to decide if he will agree to Duncan's request to carry some illegal cargo back into the States, that ...
There's nothing more deadly than a gentle man pushed to the breaking point! One of novelist Ernest Hemingway's greatest works comes to the screen in this story of a World War II veteran who has fallen on hard times and discovers exactly how far he will go in a desperate attempt to keep from losing his charter boat.
Aug 5, 2019 · Clearly the best movie adaptation of a Hemingway novel. Hawks in his 1944 To Have and Have Not which starred Bogart and Bacall, came close to getting it right. Michael Curtiz (“ The Sea Hawk “) six years later was more faithful to the author in his remake. He was better able to catch the spirit of the fatalistic charter boat captain who ...
Aug 17, 2017 · The Breaking Point was ironically helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, and Curtiz biographer Alan K. Rode, who appears in an excellent bonus feature on this Criterion Blu-ray release ...
Oct 5, 2011 · "The Breaking Point" (1950) is a terrific adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel "To Have and Have Not." Hemingway himself thought "The Breaking Point" was the best film adaption of any of his works, including the more famous Bogie-Bacall movie that ostensibly was based on "To Have and Have Not," but little resembled it.
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