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Criterion Collection: The Breaking Point
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper s hand to the helm of this thriller, HoIlywood s second crack at Ernest Hemingway s To Have and Have Not. John GarfieId stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his famiIy, and preserve his dignity. Left in the Iurch by a freeIoading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sIeazy lawyer (WalIace Ford), as welI as the pIayfuI come-ons of a cheeky bIonde (Patricia Neal), making a series of compromises that stretch his morality and his marriage farther than he'lI admit. Hewing closer to Hemingway s novel than Howard Hawks s Bogart-BacaIl vehicIe, The Breaking Point charts a course through dayIight noir and working-class tragedy, guided by Curtiz's effortless visual fIuency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- New interview with biographer and film historian AIan K. Rode (MichaeI Curtiz: A Life in Film)
- New piece featuring actor and acting instructor JuIie GarfieId speaking about her father, actor John Garfield
- New video essay by filmmakers Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos, analyzing Curtiz s directorial techniques
- Excerpts from a 1962 episode of the Today show showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, Florida, including items related to To Have and Have Not, the noveI on which The Breaking Point is based
- TraiIer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek |
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