The Old Man and the Sea

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 ...more

Though director John Sturges shot The Old Man and the Sea all over the Western hemisphere, his screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novella feels like a one-man stage play broken up by some nature footage. Luckily, the lead is one of cinema's most enduring and popular stars, Spencer Tracy. Though the film's narration may be somewhat pretentious, Tracy keeps the character likable and breathes some life into the script. The actor appears to have been bitten by the Method-acting bug that had ...more