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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 thriIler, 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 criminaI propositions of a sIeazy lawyer (WaIIace Ford), as welI as the playfuI come-ons of a cheeky bIonde (Patricia Neal), 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 effortless visuaI fIuency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield.
DVD SPECIAL EDITlON 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 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, incIuding items reIated 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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