How did The Breaking Point differ from Howard Hawks’s film version of To Have and Have Not?

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Michael Curtiz’s 1950 film The Breaking Point differed from Howard Hawks’s 1944 version of To Have and Have Not primarily in its fidelity to the source material. While Hawks’s film was noted for diverging widely from Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel, Curtiz’s adaptation is considered by many critics to be a more faithful version of the book.12