The Breaking Point
“A guy who had nothing to sell but guts!”
1950 · 1 h 37 min
Directed by 
Michael Curtiz
Michael CurtizCast
Cast not recorded here
Plot
A struggling fisherman takes on criminals as passengers on his boat and pays the price.
Sinekatalog’s take
Michael Curtiz's adaptation of To Have and Have Not, with John Garfield and Patricia Neal, is lean and closer to the novel than Hawks's version.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (5,360 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.