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- 'To Have and Have Not' (1944) Director: Howard Hawks. Regardless of how far from a close of an adaptation it is, To Have and Have Not is an undeniable romance classic.
- 'The Killers' (1946) Director: Robert Siodmak. Featuring Ava Gardner in one of her best roles (though she could've gotten more screen time), the first adaptation of The Killers endures the best.
- 'The Breaking Point' (1950) Director: Michael Curtiz. The Breaking Point is the second adaptation of To Have and Have Not and features John Garfield (in his second to last film role) and Patricia Neal as the lead.
- 'Captain Khorshid' (1987) Director: Nasser Taghvai. Made in Iran by talented filmmaker Nasser Taghvai, Captain Khorshid is one of the few Ernest Hemingway adaptations that aren't English-spoken.
- Hemingway Unknown (2021) What it’s about: This is a documentary that narrates Hemingway’s life. With the use of archive footage and factual pieces of information, it provides a look into Hemingway’s personal and artistic life.
- The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1989) What it’s about: ”The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway” is a 1989 television movie that tells the story of the iconic American author and journalist, Ernest Hemingway.
- Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015) What it’s about: This biographical drama tells the story of Hemingway’s time in Cuba, where he became involved in the revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista.
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) What it’s about: This HBO film tells the story of Hemingway’s tumultuous relationship with war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who would become his third wife.
Aug 29, 2024 · August 29, 2024. 3 min read. The generally underrated Liev Schreiber anchors Paula Ortiz’s subtle and graceful adaptation of one of Ernest Hemingway’s final novels, “Across the River and Into the Trees.”. Schreiber is a consistently engaging performer—I became very attuned to his approach by recapping years of episodes of “Ray ...
- The Killers
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- To Have and Have Not
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- The Old Man and The Sea
The Killers uses Hemingway’s short story as a kind of springboard. The author once explained his bare, muscular prose by saying that “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” If the writer is writing well enough, the reader will be able to discern what he is omitting. The Killers fills in that invisi...
For Whom The Bell Tolls is the rare Hemingway adaptation that sticks pretty close to the (extremely successful) novel. Gary Cooper plays Robert, an explosives expert who falls for Maria (Ingrid Bergman, in her first color film) as they fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. (Hemingway reportedly had Cooper and Bergman in mind while he ...
Hemingway had a kindred spirit in fellow man’s man and director Howard Hawks. The two made a bet that Hawks couldn’t make a movie out of Hemingway’s worst book, To Have And Have Not. Hawks succeeded by throwing out the entire plot, including the class inequalities reflected in the book’s title, and starting from scratch. In both versions, protagoni...
“The Snows Of Kilimanjaro” is one of Hemingway’s finest short stories: As a writer named Harry lies dying of gangrene on a hunting trip in Africa, he flashes back to all the mistakes he’s made in his life. In the movie version, produced by 20th Century Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck, those regrets are expanded to craft a tale of a lost love: Cynthia, pl...
Hemingway finally won his Pulitzer (and Nobel) for this comeback novella: the saga of aging fisherman Santiago, striving to break a long streak of bad luck for one final successful run. Naturally, it would take an actor of double Oscar-winning caliber like Spencer Tracy to command the audience’s attention for a mostly solo 90-minute voyage. The glo...
Apr 9, 2021 · As good as Ken Burns’s film is, there are inevitably weaknesses. Most notably among these, he seems uninterested in Hemingway’s spiritual life.
May 21, 2021 · Hemingway purists were not happy with the changes made from the original novel with the Christian Science Monitor’s Arthur Unger declaring the production was a “a minor literary classic, which ...
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Jul 20, 2024 · The Killers is one of the best crime movies of the 1940s, with a 100% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes. Hemingway's ability to master large ideas in brief stories is evident in The Killers. The 1946 film version adds mystery and suspense to Hemingway's story, making it a worthwhile and gripping watch. In the 1940s, famous author Ernest ...
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