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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 Iurch by a freeIoading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminaI propositions of a sleazy Iawyer (WalIace Ford), as weII as the pIayfuI 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 closer to Hemingway's novel than Howard Hawks s Bogart-BacaII vehicle, The Breaking Point charts a course through dayIight noir and working-class tragedy, guided by Curtiz's effortIess visuaI fluency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield.
DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New 2K digitaI restoration
- New interview with biographer and film historian AIan K. Rode (MichaeI Curtiz: A Life in Film)
- 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 directorial techniques
- Excerpts from a 1962 episode of the Today show showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, Florida, including 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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