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...movie has an experienced director, a well-written script, careful photography, and an able cast it ought to be good. "The Breaking Point," which follows this formula admirably, is an excellent case in point...
...their script Jerry Wald and Michael Curtiz, producer and director respectively, have adapted an incident from Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not." They have sacrificed nothing in the transition: the dialogue retains all of Hemingway's sharpness, and his simple, compact plot is still as clear and as interesting as ever...
...prolong his attentions, she reads up on counterfeiting and begins spouting counterfeiter's argot. This maneuver sets up a clever scene in which Lancaster gives her a whispered grilling at a nightclub table while wandering violinists serenade them with romantic mood music. The romance also serves the script's ironic purpose of bringing the Secret Service man innocently into the counterfeiter's happy circle of friends...
...script's neatest trick, unfalteringly pulled off by Edmund Goulding's direction and Edmund Gwenn's superb acting, is to give the picture's closing episodes the winning quality of Miracle on 34th Street. Like Miracle, in which Actor Gwenn played a put-upon Santa Claus, Mister 880 works up the surefire comic-sentimental appeal of pompous authority melting in the warmth of an ingenuous little man of good will...
There are no familiar names on the cast and none which are likely to become very familiar either. Most of the actors read their lines as if they were reciting from a script. Nor is the photography unusuall7y spectacular, although some clever camera techniques have been employed to film those scenes which take place in areas where there is little or no gravity...