The Breaking Point

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The Breaking Point
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Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Produced by	Jerry Wald
Written by	Ernest Hemingway (novel To Have and Have Not) Ranald MacDougall
Starring	John Garfield Patricia Neal
Release date(s)	September 30, 1950 (U.S. premiere)
Running time	97 min
Language	English
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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.

[edit] 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.