The Old Man and the Sea
SPENCER TRACY in his most suspenseful role...ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S story of Heroism...Defeat...Victory!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 8, 2010
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spencer Tracy | |
Performer: | Harry Bellaver, Felipe Pazos, Don Diamond, Don Blackman, Mauritz Hugo, J. Ray & Tony Rosario | |
Directed by | John Sturges | |
Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Viertel | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Cinematography by | Lamar Boren & Tom Tutwiler | |
Art Direction by | Art Loell & Edward Carrere | |
Produced by | Leland Hayward | |
Director of Photography: | James Wong Howe & Floyd Crosby |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Original Score: Dimitri Tiomkin
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Tracy with a hokey accent floats in a studio tank for what seems like forever.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Leland Hayward's massive production of Hemingway's short novel has been acclaimed in some critical quarters as a timeless masterwork, but 1 found it a disappointment and a bit of a bore...
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Maclean's Magazine
...Spencer Tracy stars, narrates and even got an Oscar nomination....Some of James Wong Howe's photography is lovely...
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
The 1958 film, made six years after publication of the book, is a faithful adaptation - virtually a word-for-word copy of Hemingway's dialogue and prose - that is not without its faults.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Rating: B- --
The film can't do proper justice to the literary masterpiece.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Talky, but not surprising, since it is based on Hemingway story of old man (Tracy) musing about catching huge fish.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 7/10 --
Tracy reading Hemingway's lines...brings to them a simple dignity and nobility that is hard to match.
Movie Metropolis
Product Description:
John Sturges's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short novel, often regarded as an allegory of the latter part of the writer's career, stars Spencer Tracy as Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman who has been nearly three months without a significant haul. Heaped with ridicule by other fisherman, he once again pushes off in his decrepit ketch, hoping that this trip will finally bring success. After a time at sea he hooks a powerful marlin that drags the man's tiny craft for a couple of days. Santiago engages in an epic battle with the monster, his hands nearly cut to ribbons as he's pushed to the limit of his dwindling strength. At rest during lulls in this war, he has dreams of his stronger and younger self, only to awaken to reality. At length, through guile, experience, and endurance, he lands the hefty marlin with a harpoon and secures him to the side of his boat. But a new danger arises, in the form of a school of hungry sharks that attacks the boat, attempting to seize his catch. Tracy's work is memorable in this stagy adaptation of the well-loved literary work.
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- Sales Rank: 2,219
- UPC: 883929143504
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