Sunday 9 June 2019

The Sun Also Rises (1957 Henry King)

Peter Viertel adapted Hemingway's novel, which centres around a selfish and damaged woman (Ava Gardner) and her ex lover Tyrone Power, and the various people they encounter: Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, Gregory Ratoff (the Count), Juliette Greco, Marcel Dalio (Count's hanger-on), Henry Daniell (doctor) and none other than Paramount producer to be Robert Evans as the bullfighter. (I was very upset they killed the bull as it was the most charismatic character in the film).

We had just visited the establishment...



Shot by Leo Tover (Hold Back the Dawn, The Major and the Minor, Bluebeard's Eight Wife, The Day the Earth Stood Still) and scored by Hugo Friedhofer.

It was somehow enjoyable.

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