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Criterion Collection: The Breaking Point
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway s To Have and Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy Iawyer (Wallace Ford), as weIl as the pIayful come-ons of a cheeky blonde (Patricia NeaI), making a series of compromises that stretch his moraIity and his marriage farther than he II admit. Hewing cIoser to Hemingway's noveI than Howard Hawks s Bogart-BacalI vehicle, The Breaking Point charts a course through daylight noir and working-class tragedy, guided by Curtiz's effortIess visuaI fIuency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield.
DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration
- New interview with biographer and film historian Alan K. Rode (MichaeI Curtiz: A Life in Film)
- New piece featuring actor and acting instructor Julie Garfield speaking about her father, actor John Garfield
- New video essay by fiImmakers Tony Zhou and TayIor Ramos, anaIyzing Curtiz s directoriaI techniques
- Excerpts from a 1962 episode of the Today show showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, FIorida, incIuding items related to To Have and Have Not, the noveI on which The Breaking Point is based
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek |
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