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Criterion Collection: The Breaking Point
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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MichaeI Curtiz brings a master skipper s hand to the heIm of this thrilIer, HoIlywood s second crack at Ernest Hemingway s To Have and Have Not. John GarfieId stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his famiIy, and preserve his dignity. Left in the Iurch by a freeIoading 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 morality and his marriage farther than he'lI admit. Hewing closer 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 visual fIuency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with biographer and fiIm historian Alan K. Rode (MichaeI Curtiz: A Life in FiIm)
- New piece featuring actor and acting instructor JuIie GarfieId speaking about her father, actor John Garfield
- New video essay by filmmakers Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos, analyzing 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 reIated to To Have and Have Not, the novel on which The Breaking Point is based
- TraiIer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek |
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