The breaking point
By: director, Michael Curtiz
Contributors: Garfield, John, actor; Ford, Wallace, 1898-1966, actor; Neal, Patricia, 1926-2010, actor; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Special edition.
Series: Criterion collection; Criterion collection
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9781681433448
Subjects: Drama; Smuggling
Work titles: Breaking point (Motion picture : 1950)
Description: Harry Morgan is an honest charter-boat captain who is 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 lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he'll admit.
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Based on the novel "To have and have not" by Ernest Hemingway.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950.

1.37:1 aspect ratio.

Special features: new interview with biographer and film historian Alan K. Rode (Michael 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 filmmakers Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos, analyzing Curtiz's directorial techniques; excerpts from a a1962 episode of the Today show showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, Florida, including items related to the novel "To have and have not"; trailer; an essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek.

John Garfield, Wallace Ford, Patricia Neal.

DVD.