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==Plot== ==Plot==

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1950 film
The Breaking Point
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Written byErnest Hemingway (novel To Have and Have Not)
Ranald MacDougall
Produced byJerry Wald
StarringJohn Garfield
Patricia Neal
Release datesSeptember 30, 1950 (U.S. premiere)
Running time97 min
LanguageEnglish
This article is about the Michael Curtiz film. For the Band of Brothers episode, see The Breaking Point (Band of Brothers).

The Breaking Point is the second film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not. The film, directed by Michael Curtiz, is considered more faithful to the novel than the 1940s version starring Humphrey Bogart.

Plot

Garfield plays Harry Morgan a pennyless fishing hire proprietor whose business is on the skids and whose family is feeling the economic pinch. He begins to work with a shady lawyer who persuades him to run illegal immigrants into California. When this goes wrong he comes even more under the influence of the lawyer who blackmails him into helping the escape of a gang of crooks who pull a racetrack heist.

Featured cast

Actor Role
John Garfield Harry Morgan
Patricia Neal Leona Charles
Phyllis Thaxter Lucy Morgan
Juano Hernandez Wesley Park
Wallace Ford F.R. Duncan
Films directed by Michael Curtiz
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