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Name: The Breaking Point (1950)
Released: 1950-10-6
Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford

The Breaking Point (1950)

NR
1h 37m
1950

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There's nothing more deadly than a gentle man pushed to the Breaking Point! One of novelist Ernest Hemingway's greatest works comes to the screen in this story of a World War II veteran who has fallen on hard times and discovers exactly how far he will go in a desperate attempt to keep from losing his charter boat. Former PT boat captain Harry Morgan (John Garfield) now skippers a boat out of California. Deeply in debt, he agrees to smuggle Asian immigrants into the United States, but things go badly. Now, in an even more desperate situation, he agrees to ferry a gang of robbers out of the country.

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Producer:

Jerry Wald

Writer:

Ranald MacDougall

Cast:

John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford, Edmon Ryan, Ralph Dumke

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Sean Axmaker

Director Michael Curtiz draws us into the family life and the stresses on the marriage beautifully and he doesn’t let us forget the human cost of Harry’s actions...

It may not be spiritually ennobling, but it is Hemingway. And it is pretty true to life.

A tumultuous film noir where one mistake results in an honest man’s life spiralling downwards.

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