The Old Man and the Sea

An ageing Cuban fisherman is down on his luck but determined to defy the elements on his quest to catch a majestic marlin. It’s man versus nature in this vividly realised adaptation of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tale, with evocative music from Oscar winner Dimitri Tiomkin., Ernest Hemingway’s short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn’t stop John Sturges from trying to cinematize Hemingway’s tight little character study. Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore. Tracy’s tiny boat is besieged by sharks and by natural elements, but the Old Man stubbornly sticks to his job. In the end, the fish is nothing more than a skeleton, and the Old Man returns to his tiny hovel to “dream about the lions.” Spencer Tracy may have been dreaming about the Oscar when he agreed to make this film, but Old Man and the Sea is defeated by pretentiousness and by several unconvincing “sea” scenes shot in a studio tank (even though both Tracy and director Sturges underwent incredible hardships filming in a real boat on the real ocean). Old Man and the Sea was remade as a 1990 made-for-TV movie starring Anthony Quinn, which compounded the mistakes made in the Tracy version by grafting on a pointless love story., John Sturges’ Oscar winning adaptation of Ernest Hemmingway’s story about an old fisherman whose gigantic catch drags him out to sea., Adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s classic tale stars Best Actor nominee Spencer Tracy as a Cuban fisherman who must overcome numerous obstacles in his attempt to haul in a giant fish. Hemingway’s wife, Mary, played the shocked tourist at the end of the film., Screen version of Hemingway’s classic novella about a simple Cuban fisherman, the butt of local humour, who is confronted with the chance to turn years of fruitless toil to glory when he hooks a massive marlin out in the Gulf Stream, Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy stars in Ernest Hemingway’s classic story of an aged but indomitable Cuban fisherman and his battle against the sea., Based on the classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The story of an aging, life-long fisherman attempting to find himself, and hopefully a fish, on a fishing trip in the gulf waters off Cuba. After spending most of his life alone, and losing his only companion, a young Cuban boy, the old man heads out to sea once again, the laughing-stock of all other fisherman. His 80+ days without a notable catch end on this trip, but will he be able to defeat the odds after catching a gigantic marlin?, An old Cuban fisherman’s dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea. Based on a story by Ernest Hemingway.