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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 [1] (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
1950 1h 37m Drama List 100% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 88% Audience Score 250+ Ratings 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
Breaking Point, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Sporting Blood Fishing boat captain Harry (John Garfield), ducking hustler Duncan (Wallace Ford), finds first the girlfriend (Patricia Neal), then his fare (Ralph Dummke), in a Mexican bar, in The Breaking Point, 1952, from Hemingway's To Have And Have Not.
The Breaking Point (1950) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Based out of Newport Beach, California, Harry Morgan, a former naval officer during the war, is struggling to make ends meet operating a boat charter, primarily fishing trips locally and to/from Mexico, with his friend Wesley Park more often than not by his side as his first mate.