The Breaking Point (1950 film)

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.

Bosley Crowther, the film critic at The New York Times, lauded the film when it was first released. He wrote, Warner Brothers, which already has taken one feeble swing and a cut at Ernest Hemingways memorable story of a tough guy, To Have and Have Not, finally has got hold of that fable and socked it for a fourbase hit in a film called The Breaking Point, which came to the Strand yesterday. All of the character, color and cynicism of Mr. Hemingways lean and hungry tale are wrapped up in this realistic picture, and John Garfield is tops in the principal role ... Some solid production and photography along the coast and in actual harbors for small boats round out a film which is gripping and pictorially genuine.The Gun Runners, a 1958 film directed by Don Siegel, is the third film based on the To Have and Have Not novel and stars Audie Murphy in the BogartGarfield role and Everett Sloane in Walter Brennans part as the alcoholic sidekick, although Sloanes interpretation was less overtly comedic than Brennans. ........

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