The Breaking Point: The Criterion Collection

Summary

An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat as The Breaking Point is given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 15th August 2022 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Cast

John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford, Edmon Ryan

Director

Michael Curtiz

Producer

Jerry Wald

Distributor

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Run time

1 hour 37 minutes

Release date

15/08/2022

Hash Tag

#TheBreakingPoint #CriterionCollection

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Michael Curtiz (Mildred Pierce) 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 (The Postman Always Rings Twice) 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 (Harvey's Wallace Ford), as well as the playful comeons of a cheeky blonde (A Face in the Crowd's Patricia Neal), making a series of compromises that stretch his morality-and his marriage-farther than he'll admit.

Hewing closer to Hemingway's novel than Howard Hawks's Bogart-Bacall vehicle, 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.

The Breaking Point is given the Criterion treatment and released on Blu-ray 15th August 2022 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with biographer and film historian Alan K. Rode (Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film)
New piece featuring actor and acting instructor Julie Garfield speaking about her father, actor John Garfield
New video essay by filmmakers Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos, analysing 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 related to To Have and Have Not, the novel on which The Breaking Point is based
Trailer
An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek

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