Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea: Part 2 — The Film

Steve Newman Writer
Sep 8, 2018 · 9 min read

“ No movie with a rubber fish ever made a goddam dime.” Ernest Hemingway

Spencer Tracy. Source: MUBI

Even with the extraordinary success of Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Hollywood didn’t come knocking on the author’s door demanding to give him huge amounts of money for the film rights. That didn’t bother Hemingway too much, he was thinking more about another trip to Europe including…

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