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'The Breaking Point' is the Hemingway adaptation you don't know about (but should) 

This adaptation of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" is better than the famous one.

You probably know about To Have and Have Not, the 1944 movie adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel. It's the one that made Bogie and Bacall an item. It's pretty good. But not as good as the adaptation you probably don't know.

That would be The Breaking Point, the 1950 movie based on the same Hemingway book. New to the Criterion Collection, this one stars John Garfield as a charter boat captain who grows less morally upright as the movie progresses, and Patricia Neal as the femme fatale who helps move him down that path.

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Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, dozens of other movies), The Breaking Point should have been at least a moderate hit. Then Garfield was named in Red Channels, a tract created to out alleged Communists and sympathizers in Hollywood. Warner Bros. buried the movie. Garfield's career was over; he died of a heart attack in 1952, at age 39. Watch The Breaking Point for him, and also because it's a hell of a film.