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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.
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.
The Breaking Point (1950) - Turner Classic Movies. 1h 37m1950. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam. Cast & Crew. Read More. Michael Curtiz. Director. John Garfield. Harry Morgan. Patricia Neal. Leona Charles.
A charter-boat captain winds up in the middle of a syndicate shootout after transporting illegal immigrants.
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.
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.
