BREAKING POINT, THE (1950)
John Garfield gives perhaps his greatest performance as world-weary fishing boat skipper Harry Morgan in this superb and darkly noir adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," one of the best, if unjustly neglected, films of the noir era. Struggling to make ends meet when he's stiffed on a chartered fishing trip to Mexico, Morgan is drawn into illicit activities with gangsters and seduced by a blonde bombshell passenger (Patricia Neal). With his marriage to faithful wife Lucy (Phyllis Thaxter) on the line, he decides to risk it all attempting to double-cross the gangsters. (Note adapted from The Film Noir Foundation.) DIR Michael Curtiz; SCR Ranald MacDougall, from the novel by "To Have and Have Not" by Ernest Hemingway; PROD Jerry Wald. U.S., 1950, b&w, 97 min. NOT RATED
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Run Time: 97 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, July 08, 2023
Genre: Film noir