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The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Director: John Sturges
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A painfully sincere, meticulously faithful, and pitifully plodding adaptation of Hemingway's novel about the symbolic struggle between an old Mexican fisherman and a giant marlin. At its most embarrassing in the endless monologues where Tracy has to mouth Hemingway's notion of a poetic patois ('You're a fine fish, Fish, you fight a brave good fight'). The pity of it is that some fine camerawork (from a team that included James Wong Howe and Floyd Crosby) is sabotaged by clumsy back projection and hideous colour matching. Hemingway himself can be briefly glimpsed in a bar scene towards the end.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: John Sturges
Producer: Leland Hayward
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 86 mins
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