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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Written by | Ernest Hemingway (novel To Have and Have Not) Ranald MacDougall |
| Produced by | Jerry Wald |
| Starring | John Garfield Patricia Neal |
| Release dates | September 30, 1950 (U.S. premiere) |
| Running time | 97 min |
| Language | English |
The Breaking Point is the second film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not." The film, considered more faithful to the novel than the Humphrey Bogart starring film of the 1940s, was directed by Michael Curtiz.
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 |
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| John Garfield | Harry Morgan |
| Patricia Neal | Leona Charles |
| Phyllis Thaxter | Lucy Morgan |
| Juano Hernandez | Wesley Park |
| Wallace Ford | F.R. Duncan |