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Saturday Cinema: Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

on BBC Two England

starring Spencer Tracy

An old man fishes in the Caribbean Gulf Stream. He has gone eighty-four days without a catch. On the eighty-fifth day, alone in his boat, his bait is taken by a huge fish and for two whole days he struggles to gain mastery over it...
(Colour)
(to 16.25)

Contributors

Photography:
James Wong Howe
Screenplay:
Peter Viertel
Based on the story by:
Ernest Hemingway
Producer:
Leland Hayward
Director:
John Sturges
The Old Man:
Spencer Tracy
The Boy:
Felipe Pazos
Martin:
Harry Bellaver

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