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- Title
"Ain't Got No Chance": The Case of The Breaking Point.
- Authors
CIVILLE, MICHAEL
- Abstract
This article explores The Breaking Point (1950), the lesser-known Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, within its postwar historical context. Transferring a fi sherman's fi ght for survival from the Depression into an era of prosperity and political anxiety, the fi lm draws comparisons to the progressive Hollywood fi lmmaking of the time through its visions of working-class life and racial solidarity. However, its more complicated details and disappointing box-office returns simultaneously reveal that a repressive conservatism was slowly replacing calls for social reform by the dawn of the 1950s.
- Subjects
BREAKING Point, The (Film); FILM adaptations; HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; WORKING class in motion pictures; 20TH century history of race relations in the United States; ANTI-communist movements; TO Have &; Have Not (Book : Hemingway); HISTORY
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2016, Vol 56, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2016.0051