The Life and Times of John Garfield / The Breaking Point / USA 1950
Six years after the adaptation of Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not, the film which brought iconic couple Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together, Warner Bros. embarked upon a new version which was to stick more closely to the original book. The offer appealed to Garfield, although he wanted Michael Curtiz in the director’s chair, the man he owed for launching his career (Four Daughters). His boat captain Harry Morgan joins a variety of distinctive noir heroes, who find themselves in wretched situations, partly through adversity, partly through foolish attempts to engage in the underworld, blind to the irreversible consequences. Of all the movies Garfield appeared in, this was his favourite, a remarkable film in many respects; even so, the brilliant Curtiz directed another two films that same year…
Karel Och
35mm print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by Warner Bros. in association with The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
97 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Michael Curtiz
/ Screenplay Ranald MacDougall podle románu / based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
/ Dir. of Photography Ted D. McCord
/ Music Max Steiner
/ Editor Alan Crosland Jr.
/ Art Director Edward Carrere
/ Producer Jerry Wald
/ Production Warner Bros.
/ Cast John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernández
/ Sales Park Circus Group
/ Contact UCLA Film & Television Archive
Michael Curtiz (1886, Budapest – 1962, Los Angeles). Selected filmography: Queen of Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrah (1922), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Casablanca (1942), Night and Day (1946), The Breaking Point (1950), We’re No Angels (1955).
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