The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point

1950 | 1h 37m | Romance, Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

One of 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 learns exactly how far he will go in a desperate attempt to keep from losing his charter boat.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Michael Curtiz

CAST

John Garfield

Patricia Neal

Juano Hernandez

Phyllis Thaxter

Wallace Ford

William Campbell

PRODUCERS

Jerry Wald

WRITERS

Ranald MacDougall

Ernest Hemingway

Host Intros

04:14
30th Anniversary of the Film Foundation: The Breaking Point, 1950, Sofia Coppola, Joanna Hogg
Intro Aired: Oct 2020
TCM's Ben Mankiewicz hosts a special introduction by director Sofia Coppola, followed by comments from director Joanna Hogg, for The Breaking Point, 1950, marking the 30th anniversary of the Film Foundation.
10:39
Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on The Breaking Point (1950)
Intro Aired: Dec 2017
Noir Alley host Eddie Mullers introduction and comments following The Breaking Point, 1950.

Related Videos

Breaking Point, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) You Know How It Is
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John Garfield narrating the opening to his second-to-last film, as "Harry Morgan," in the second and more faithful version of Hemingway's To Have And Have Not, Phyllis Thaxter his wife, in The Breaking Point, 1950.
Breaking Point, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Chinese It Talks
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Stiffed by his charter fare in Mexico, captain Harry (John Garfield) takes up Hannagan (Wallace Ford) on an offer to talk to a smuggler (Victor Sen Yung), in The Breaking Point, 1952, Michael Curtiz directing, from Hemingway's To Have And Have Not.
Breaking Point, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Sporting Blood
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Fishing boat captain Harry (John Garfield), ducking hustler Duncan (Wallace Ford), finds first the girlfriend (Patricia Neal), then his fare (Ralph Dummke), in a Mexican bar, in The Breaking Point, 1952, from Hemingway's To Have And Have Not.

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