Reading He Ran All The Way: The Life of John Garfield (2004), a biography penned by Robert Nott with a special emphasis in Garfield's filmography and the 50's witchhunt that would seal his fate abruptly, we come to understand the normalcy and humanity behind a film icon when separated from his Hollywood proscenium. His chemistry with Patricia Neal is immensurable, although before the shooting Garfield had offhandedly reminded her that she was going to play a whore in the picture. Garfield reenacted Hemingway's hero in The Breaking Point (played previously by Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not, 1944), affirming: "I think it's the best I've done since Body & Soul. 'A man alone ain't got no chance' -John Garfield as Harry Morgan in The Breaking Point (1950)
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