Islands in the Stream (1977)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell
Synopsis:
An industrial artist living a plenipotentiary existence in the Bahamas prior to WW2 awaits a visit from his three sons. One of his ex-wives also visits with tragic news, and he ultimately returns to the States.
Review:
Apart from Scott's performance as an archetypal Hemingway figure, this adaptation has a lot wrong with it, the first being that it was felt necessary to do it at all. There are far too many characters, relationships and narrative strands to compress into a standard running time: the drunkenness, fatherhood, the fishing, smuggling refugees; so much so that it has to be divided into three 'chapters', never an ideal situation for a movie.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell
Synopsis:
An industrial artist living a plenipotentiary existence in the Bahamas prior to WW2 awaits a visit from his three sons. One of his ex-wives also visits with tragic news, and he ultimately returns to the States.
Review:
Apart from Scott's performance as an archetypal Hemingway figure, this adaptation has a lot wrong with it, the first being that it was felt necessary to do it at all. There are far too many characters, relationships and narrative strands to compress into a standard running time: the drunkenness, fatherhood, the fishing, smuggling refugees; so much so that it has to be divided into three 'chapters', never an ideal situation for a movie.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell
Synopsis:
An industrial artist living a plenipotentiary existence in the Bahamas prior to WW2 awaits a visit from his three sons. One of his ex-wives also visits with tragic news, and he ultimately returns to the States.
Review:
Apart from Scott's performance as an archetypal Hemingway figure, this adaptation has a lot wrong with it, the first being that it was felt necessary to do it at all. There are far too many characters, relationships and narrative strands to compress into a standard running time: the drunkenness, fatherhood, the fishing, smuggling refugees; so much so that it has to be divided into three 'chapters', never an ideal situation for a movie.