The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Torin Thatcher, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
A successful writer lies wounded and embittered at the foot of Kilimanjaro, expecting to die from a gangrenous leg. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he recollects the great love of his life, and the women with whom he attempted to fill the void she left behind.
Review:
Picturebook recreation of a celebrated Hemingway novel, filled with his customary obsessions: writing, women, hunting, bullfighting. Even the Spanish Civil War gets a look in, in the film's most unlikely, and unresolved, episode. Gardner looks stunning and was seldom better; Peck, despite being teamed with frequent collaborator King, looks too young in the later stuff and is ill at ease playing such a reckless, feckless prostitutor of his art as this character. Herrmann delivers unremarkable music, with few opportunities for emotional grandstanding, though the atmospheric visit of a hyena to the tent at the film's conclusion is effective in part due to his underscoring.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Torin Thatcher, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
A successful writer lies wounded and embittered at the foot of Kilimanjaro, expecting to die from a gangrenous leg. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he recollects the great love of his life, and the women with whom he attempted to fill the void she left behind.
Review:
Picturebook recreation of a celebrated Hemingway novel, filled with his customary obsessions: writing, women, hunting, bullfighting. Even the Spanish Civil War gets a look in, in the film's most unlikely, and unresolved, episode. Gardner looks stunning and was seldom better; Peck, despite being teamed with frequent collaborator King, looks too young in the later stuff and is ill at ease playing such a reckless, feckless prostitutor of his art as this character. Herrmann delivers unremarkable music, with few opportunities for emotional grandstanding, though the atmospheric visit of a hyena to the tent at the film's conclusion is effective in part due to his underscoring.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Torin Thatcher, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
A successful writer lies wounded and embittered at the foot of Kilimanjaro, expecting to die from a gangrenous leg. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he recollects the great love of his life, and the women with whom he attempted to fill the void she left behind.
Review:
Picturebook recreation of a celebrated Hemingway novel, filled with his customary obsessions: writing, women, hunting, bullfighting. Even the Spanish Civil War gets a look in, in the film's most unlikely, and unresolved, episode. Gardner looks stunning and was seldom better; Peck, despite being teamed with frequent collaborator King, looks too young in the later stuff and is ill at ease playing such a reckless, feckless prostitutor of his art as this character. Herrmann delivers unremarkable music, with few opportunities for emotional grandstanding, though the atmospheric visit of a hyena to the tent at the film's conclusion is effective in part due to his underscoring.