Screenplay:
Peter ViertelComposer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
Spencer Tracy, Harry Bellaver, Don Blackman, Mauritz Hugo, Don Alvarado, Don Diamond, Felipe PazosPlots(1)
John Sturges's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short novel, often regarded as an allegory of the latter part of the writer's career, stars Spencer Tracy as Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman who has been nearly three months without a significant haul. Heaped with ridicule by other fisherman, he once again pushes off in his decrepit ketch, hoping that this trip will finally bring success. After a time at sea he hooks a powerful marlin that drags the man's tiny craft for a couple of days. Santiago engages in an epic battle with the monster, his hands nearly cut to ribbons as he's pushed to the limit of his dwindling strength. At rest during lulls in this war, he has dreams of his stronger and younger self, only to awaken to reality. At length, through guile, experience, and endurance, he lands the hefty marlin with a harpoon and secures him to the side of his boat. But a new danger arises, in the form of a school of hungry sharks that attacks the boat, attempting to seize his catch. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Spencer Tracy
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Fury (1936)
Harry Bellaver
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Don Blackman
USA
Best movies:
On the Waterfront (1954)
Emperor of the North (1973)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
Mauritz Hugo
Sweden
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Don Alvarado
USA
Best movies:
The Big Steal (1949)
Morning Glory (1933)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Don Diamond
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Story of Ruth (1960)
Breezy (1973)
Felipe Pazos
Cuba
Best movies:
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)