Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering fashion, on Hemingway crony F. .. Read more
| Starring | Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner |
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| Director | Henry King |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering fashion, on Hemingway crony F. Scott Fitzgerald. While hunting in the African mountains in the company of his faithful lady friend Susan Hayward, Peck is seriously wounded; in fact, it doesn't look as though he'll survive the night. In the few hours he has left, Peck reflects upon what he considers a wasted life. Having aspired to be the Great American Novelist, Peck has only turned out money-making drivel. The only time that he truly felt as though he'd made a contribution to the world was when he fought on the Loyalist side in Spain (this element isn't in the short story, but is drawn from Hemingway's own experiences). As for his lost romance with his late wife Ava Gardner, Peck still cannot figure out what went wrong. The Hemingway original ended with the Peck character dying from his wounds; producer Darryl F. Zanuck wouldn't hear of this, preferring that Peck survive with the resolve to write something of lasting value. The Technicolor location photography of Leon Shamroy and the rumbling musical score of Bernard Herrmann are the main attractions of The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
| Starring | Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner |
|---|---|
| Director | Henry King |
| Studio | DYNAMIC ENTERTAINMENT LTD |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 52 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1952 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 27 Sep 2010 To Rent: DVD: 10 Sep 2003 |
| Watch now | Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant. Subscribe. |
Hollywood version of a portable Hemingway, with reminiscences of several novels stirred into a lush and sprawling mix of action and romance, open spaces and smart salons. A big popular star film of its time, despite constricted and unconvincing characters
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A long uninvolving film
With a cast of great actors, this should be a much better film however it's let down by a thin and feeble screenplay. The individual scenes of Street's ... read more »
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Not One to Watch
One of Pecks worst films, slow and boring
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Warning!
This DVD must have used a terrible print for the transfer (or whatever it is they do). All the colour is washed out, the sound is muddy. It's shocking that ... read more »
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