John Garfield in ‘The Breaking Point,’ now out on DVD

John Garfield fans are in for a treat because one of his finest films, 1950’s “The Breaking Point,” has finally arrived on DVD thanks to Warner Archive. Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel “To Have and Have Not” was loosely adapted into the 1944 hit Howard Hawks romantic drama of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. But six years later, Michael Curtiz directed this much more faithful rendition starring Garfield as Harry Morgan, a married man and father who operates an unsuccessful fishing boat for hire. To make money, he gets involved with a shady attorney. Patricia Neal, sporting blond hair, is the femme fatale who leads the skipper astray, and pioneering black actor Juano Hernandez is Morgan’s assistant and conscience.