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The Breaking Point (1950)

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Michael Curtiz Director

previously directed Bright Leaf

An honest boat captain finds himself strapped for cash and gets pulled into an escalating string of shady business deals which could cost him and his family their lives.

Trivia:

Based on the Hemingway novel 'To Have and Have Not', which was first made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in 1944. The same novel was later adapted twice more, into 'Wetbacks' (1956) and 'The Gun Runners' (1958). Ironically, Hemingway himself considered it one of his worst books.

Quote: Harry Morgan

[to Lucy] I get teed off sometimes. No sooner do I get my head above water than somebody pushes me down again!

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Writers
	Ranald MacDougall	screenplay
	Ernest Hemingway	novel "To Have and Have Not"

Cast
	John Garfield	Harry Morgan
	Patricia Neal	Leona Charles
	Phyllis Thaxter	Lucy Morgan
	Juano Hernandez	Wesley Park
	Wallace Ford	F.R. Duncan
	Edmon Ryan	Rogers
	Ralph Dumke	Hannagan
	Guy Thomajan	Danny
	William Campbell	Concho
	Sherry Jackson	Amelia Morgan
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General Information Edit

Name	The Breaking Point
US Release	Oct. 6, 1950
UK Release
AUS Release
Runtime	97
Language(s)	Add a new language English
Genre(s)	Add a new genre Crime Film Noir Drama
Theme(s)	Add a new theme gangster
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