The Incomparable

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  Lions, Towers & Shields March 14, 2024 The Breaking Point

  91 I Wouldn't Go to Salinas Either

  Shelly Brisbin with Randy Dotinga and Nathan Alderman

  Unlike the mid-40s film that first brought us Bogie and Bacall, The Breaking Point is a relatively faithful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s story, To Have and Have Not. This one stars John Garfield (in one of his final films) and Patricia Neal. Michael Curtiz directs, but if that suggests a routine Warner Bothers potboiler (I love those) it is not. Garfield is a boat captain talked into doing some smuggling. There’s a love triangle and an ending that’ll just wrench you.