The Breaking Point (1950)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 97 min | 3,99 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps | Subtitles: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Ranald MacDougall (screen play), Ernest Hemingway (story)
Stars: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper’s hand to the helm of this thriller, 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 lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer (Wallace Ford), as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde (Patricia Neal), making a series of compromises that stretch his morality – and his marriage – further than he’ll admit. Hewing closer to Hemingway’s novel than Howard Hawks’s Bogart-Bacall vehicle does, The Breaking Point charts a course through daylight noir and working-class tragedy, guided by Curtiz’s effortless visual fluency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield.
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