The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 86m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos
Synopsis:
A poor Cuban fisherman despairs of landing a viable catch when he hooks a big blue marlin, and there begins a contest between the two as the fish drags him further out to sea in his small boat.
Review:
One may cavill at the casting and at the long stretches of inaction while we listen to Tracy the narrator bring us closer to his character's mind, but Sturges (and Zinnemann) fashioned a pictorial panegyric to equal Hemingway's textual one, inspired by the trial of endurance at its centre, and in that sense the choice of actor stands vindicated.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 86m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos
Synopsis:
A poor Cuban fisherman despairs of landing a viable catch when he hooks a big blue marlin, and there begins a contest between the two as the fish drags him further out to sea in his small boat.
Review:
One may cavill at the casting and at the long stretches of inaction while we listen to Tracy the narrator bring us closer to his character's mind, but Sturges (and Zinnemann) fashioned a pictorial panegyric to equal Hemingway's textual one, inspired by the trial of endurance at its centre, and in that sense the choice of actor stands vindicated.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 86m
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos
Synopsis:
A poor Cuban fisherman despairs of landing a viable catch when he hooks a big blue marlin, and there begins a contest between the two as the fish drags him further out to sea in his small boat.
Review:
One may cavill at the casting and at the long stretches of inaction while we listen to Tracy the narrator bring us closer to his character's mind, but Sturges (and Zinnemann) fashioned a pictorial panegyric to equal Hemingway's textual one, inspired by the trial of endurance at its centre, and in that sense the choice of actor stands vindicated.