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Bookmark this pageThe Breaking Point (1950)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Hawks messed around with Hemingway and made To Have and Have Not (1944); six years later Curtiz played it straighter and wound up with this thoroughly competent smuggling drama, which, without Bogey and Bacall on board, has faded into the celluloid woodwork. Garfield works hard though as the Southern California boat-owner who puts himself in danger when he agrees to take on illegal cargo to pay his debts, and even if you know and love the Hawks' movie there's still much to intrigue here. (Don Siegel directed a third version, The Gun Runners, with Audie Murphy in 1958.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Jerry Wald
Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford, Edmon Ryan full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 97 mins
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