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Broke and with a family to support, charter-boat skipper Harry Morgan (John Garfield) makes a desperate gamble. For cash that will save his boat from creditors, he ferries gangsters to safety after a racing-track heist. But when you gamble, sometimes you lose. Tense and sinewy, The Breaking Point is a more faithful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not than the earlier Bogart-Bacall classic. Garfield, one of the screen's great anti-heroes, makes Morgan his own in a rugged portrayal etched with anguish. Director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), who guided Garfield to instant stardom in Four Daughters, turns the action scenes into movie dynamite, but the film's quiet final image is the one that will haunt you.
Original Release
10/06/1950
US Release
10/06/1950
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Cast
Name | Character |
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John Garfield | Harry Morgan |
Patricia Neal | Leona Charles |
Phyllis Thaxter | Lucy Morgan |
Juano Hernandez | Wesley Park |
Wallace Ford | F.R. Duncan |
Edmon Ryan | Rogers |
Ralph Dumke | Hannagan |
Guy Thomajan | Danny |
William Campbell | Concho |
Sherry Jackson | Amy Morgan / Amelia Morgan |
Directors
Writers
Ranald MacDougall, Ernest Hemingway
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Garfield | Harry Morgan |
Patricia Neal | Leona Charles |
Phyllis Thaxter | Lucy Morgan |
Juano Hernandez | Wesley Park |
Wallace Ford | F.R. Duncan |
Edmon Ryan | Rogers |
Ralph Dumke | Hannagan |
Guy Thomajan | Danny |
William Campbell | Concho |
Sherry Jackson | Amy Morgan / Amelia Morgan |
Donna Jo Boyce | Connie Morgan |
Victor Sen Yung | Mr. Sing |
John Alvin | Reporter |
Chet Brandenburg | Taxi Driver |
Peter Brocco | Macho |
Mary Carroll | Girl at Bar |
Spencer Chan | 1st Chinese Immigrant |
John Close | Deputy |
John Doucette | Gotch Goten |
Juan Duval | Bartender in Mexico |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jerry Wald | Producer |