1958-09-06 — Page 13

EVEN HEMINGWAY CRIED AT

THE END

"FISH,"

New York.

"the Old Man says softly to the creature which is to fight him for three days and nights: "I'll stay with you until I am dead."

rame

Spencer Tracy could almost photography. For 10 minutes of have muttered

the im's under-sra shots a team worked for 10 weeks with unco- operative sharks,

There

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1958.77

THOMAS WISEMAN'S LIMELIGHT GOES TO VENICE

I report the end

of the madcap days

have been coming here with their heal daughters -- and wives and the starlets have found they stand betier chance of being discovered and signed up in places like London.

So Mr Brown and his Pinc- wood team have had to fall bact:

VENICE. JOBODY is falling on getting tourists and models No

to masquerade us starlets: and Grand into the

their crizler activilles will be England unwilling Canal this year unices shot in studies in were other and the atters who caused them anguish they have been paid to installe backdrops,

which is do

a The hero SO, measure of how dras-

the grim worda during the DO days he rose at two In the morning In Havanu and was put in a little

The Old Man and the Sen," Ernest Hemingway's novel.

the liva marlins used to attract the attacking shurks.

Eventually they had to Usa monster sausages to get the cust

Near Tracy, who it looking battered #nd weather-bronzed with

a pocket-size microphone of sharks to performs with zeal tically this festival has

hidden in his rags, were a director with megaphone and cameramen in another boat,

Motor fish

They would work until three in the afternoon and go back to Havana and sleep. They did this for three months as a mechanical nah pulled Tracy this way and that,

Warner Brothers began ilm- ing in April, 1956. Ji is ready for release this month or nexí. For Tracy it began even month before Apr, 1956. Ho needed five weeks of waliting barefoot

Cubon const allngle to herden his feet Rel weatherbeaten for his part as the old barefoot Isher.

over

The story, already translated into 22 languages, has become almost classic: the Old Man Das BALC Son 39 days without tuking a fah. Unlike the other Gulf Stream flahers he now goes out alone.

fake marling made of edible

plastic stuffed with horsemeat.

Then another chapter of the

off fin-maiting began

the Peruvian Coast, six weeks of

ging to catchi the marlin whichi, fishers would say, Is the real star of the picture.

The man who led the opera- tion was the muthor, Heming- way. Sulpped to the waist bearded, brinzed, he fascinated the tollywonders. He looked as though he were 3 & distinguished ntar himself, bluff and juvial and

seribus in turn.

Blue water

Tite back to Hollywood to discuss it all-und to graft the marlin scenes to Spencer Tracy's Cuban chapter,

Bul

すば calm blue water were needed, end the Packle near Los Angeles was no zou}.

many more seenes

of the film-men went to Hawali for a few months. They had travelle 18,000 miles and more before they could finally say: "We have it all."

Il ses's Septsaber 1957. And since then they have been

The Old Man gues oet and hooks a great #sh, a marlin, and Oghts for three days and nights. But he arrives ashore with only the skeleton. He has lost the battle with trailing cutting and editings. sharks,

Now, due for release, it is The film cust Warners 5,000,- burnished into an edmirable, 000 dollars (£1,000,000). They deeply moving flm which made began if, one of the longest and Hemingway nod with satisfne- most tortuous they ever pro- tion, tears in his eyes... duced. In Cuba, in spring 1988.

Then they went to Pasoms

with diving bells fer underwater

-RONALD

SINGLETON

changed.

A British Gim unit here

authentic background capture

the mickey- and incidents for taking musical about the Venice film festival, Grab Me a Gondola, have found no Hitle to take the mickey out of they have had to bire stunt girls to fall into the eunat at 25,000 re (414) per Immersion.

The starlets who used to do this sort of thig for publicity and for free are not here.

I think I ought to tell you that The hero of Grab Mo n Gondoin in feared but golden-hearted show business ecfumnist named Tom Wilson who, it has been alleged in some quarters, is based on the Evening Standard's feared but golden-hearted shove business columnist

Campanile of St Mark's, of Els Maxwell?

Mr Brown salil The Rank this Organisation is paying for expedition. I suppose they can always use this stuff in another film."

Therefore # Elso Maxwell should turn up on the Bridge of Sighs lu a biography of Lord Byron you will understand how It happened.

Though this festival has n slightly impoverished air about it this year, the Lido is sill 4 long way from Tabaceo Road.

This may be why Mr Erskine Caldwell, who wrote that eple

Here, to give the film an up- described as the opliome of propriate send-off, was a now feminine pulchritudo but what Hollywood discovery,

Tinn she was really interested in war Louise. · A girl who is not only finding a husband and having natiesque but practically three children. statue.

This