And that just about completes a run-down of the praiseworthy aspects of this film.Īmong the film's shortcomings, Crowther notes, is that "an essential feeling of the sweep and surge of the open sea is not achieved in precise and placid pictures that obviously were shot in a studio tank. Tracy in the position of a soloist with a symphony. Also credit Dimitri Tiomkin for providing a musical score that virtually puts Mr. The soundtrack was later released in both stereo and mono by Columbia Records.īosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote: Ĭredit Leland Hayward for trying something off the beaten track in making a motion-picture version of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and credit Spencer Tracy for a brave performance in its one big role. 43, American Legion, in Hollywood Billboard reported that the acoustics in the Hollywood Legion were "far superior to most studio space in Hollywood and similar to that of the best concert halls." During the week of April 21, 1958, Columbia held open sessions for The Old Man and the Sea at the Legion Hall. His soundtrack recording, with the Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra, was recorded in the auditorium of Hollywood Post No. Veteran film composer Dimitri Tiomkin composed and conducted the music for the film. ( December 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Glassell acted as special advisor for these sequences." Music The credits note that "Some of the marlin film used in this picture was of the world's record catch by Alfred C. The film's budget, originally $2 million, grew to $5 million "in search of suitable fish footage." Sturges called it "technically the sloppiest picture I have ever made." Īccording to Turner Classic Movies, a February 2005 CNN article points out that The Old Man and the Sea was one of the first films to "use a bluescreen compositing technology invented by Arthur Widmer, that combined actors on a soundstage with a pre-filmed background." The director originally assigned to the film was Fred Zinnemann, but he withdrew, and was replaced by John Sturges.
FISHING WITH GANDHI FULL MOVIE TRIAL
For three days and nights he battles the fish, which is portrayed in the film (as it had been in Hemingway's novella) as a trial of mental and physical courage that becomes the ultimate test for him of his worth as a man.
On the Old Man's 85th day out, he finally hooks a huge marlin, which he then tries to haul in from far out past shore. His only friend is a 14-year-old boy named Jabby, who has been barred by his father from accompanying the Old Man out to sea. The Old Man in the film is a Cuban fisherman who has gone 84 days without a catch.
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