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The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy. The screenplay by Peter Viertel was based on the 1952 novella of the same name by Ernest Hemingway . Dimitri Tiomkin won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the film. The film was also nominated for Best ...
The Old Man and the Sea: Directed by John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann. With Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver, Richard Alameda. An old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.
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- Adventure, Drama
- John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann
- 1958-10-11
Old Man And The Sea, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) He Can't Keep This Up Forever Director John Sturges and screenwriter Peter Viertel relying on writer Ernest Hemingway’s hybrid use of third person narrative with the protagonists’s comments to himself, Spencer Tracy (title character) finally hooks a fish, in the waters off Cuba, in The Old Man And The Sea, 1958.
- John Sturges
- Felipe Pazos Jr.
John Sturges. Director. Ernest Hemingway. Novel. Peter Viertel. Screenplay. Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.
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."
- John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann
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Scarred by relentless time and a long string of bad luck, white-haired Cuban fisherman Santiago swallows his pride every afternoon when he returns home empty-handed; 84 days without a catch could break the spirit of most men. However, Santiago cannot afford defeat. And on the 85th day--a warm, rosy morning of September, the month of the big ...
The Old Man and the Sea. Based on Ernest Hemingway's classic novel, Spencer Tracy shines in his portrayal of an aging fisherman battling against the elements of the sea in all its fury. 1,262 IMDb 6.9 1 h 26 min 1958. X-Ray 13+.
