Word: curtiz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Michael Curtiz sparks The Breaking Point's slambang action with realistic, underplayed sequences of growing tension. Besides stinging melodrama, the film offers some unusual dividends. Its love story involves the hero with-of all people-his wife, and it is played with a passion that U.S. movies never seem to find in married couples who have school-age children. In the other woman (Patricia Neal), who gets nowhere with Morgan, the script fashions an acid, quip-studded portrait of a smart tart on the make...
Says Warner Director Michael Curtiz: "I had no idea about duck hunting, and neither did anybody else in the studio. But we all had to go. The casting director almost blew my head off. They put us in those damned trenches in the rain early in the morning, three, five o'clock, I forget. But that was the order from Zanuck...
...craft. Most of the gags are pretty thin, e.g., a safecracker trying to open a sardine can and a lady who has lost her left shoe trying to cross a hotel lobby. But chiefly, the slapstick potboiler is saved by unpretentious acting and the leisurely direction of Michael Curtiz...