Even writer Ernest Hemingway was disappointed when he saw the film.Besides starring in the film, Spencer Tracy narrates the vast majority of it. He is the old man, who hasn't caught a fish in 84 days and laments that fact. A young lad deeply cares for him, but the latter's father wants to keep the son away from the Tracy character.Tracy reflects on the past as he goes out once again to fish on the 85th day. Hooking a large fish, only to see the latter devoured by whales.Tracy is philosophic through the film, especially when he went way out to sea for that day's adventure.Exhausted, he returns to his hut and the boy is there, promising a new day. At that point, the film ends.

I found this movie very true to the book. It contains detail of the old man -Santiago- going out to sea to catch the Marlin and his friend Manolin who is like his protector who watches over him which is very kind because he is just a young boy. It gives detail to his dreams about the lions to the church music when he is carrying the sail representing Christ carrying his cross to be crucified. Well for the time that it was made (1958) I found that "The Old Man and the Sea" had spectacular acting, setting, special effects, and dialogue. It makes you feel emotion towards the old man and what he wants which is the Marlin, but when the sharks come and eat it he feels devastated, he goes through so much pain and is without luck but manages to catch a great Marlin twice as long as the skiff he is in. He loses it all and when he returns home you really see have devastated he is but he has Manolin to help him out, and bring him coffee. I rate this movie a 8 out of 10 it was a wonderful movie you should watch if you ever get a chance. It teaches you in some ways that you should prepare instead of wait for luck. It is better to be prepared and when luck comes you are ready for it. Great movie really enjoyed it. -Kenneth Valdivia

Guess who's coming to dinner,,,,,,,if that one put a lump in your throat, this one will, too. The fisherman's love of the sea, his love for "the boy" and his desire to keep doing what he has always done. Harder at his age, but still his joy. I think we see an old soul in "the boy" and a lost art in Spencer Tracy.His time on the sea, alone, was so beautiful and his determination should make us all feel a little wimpy for complaining that minor aches and pains keep us, at times, from our appointed duties. His love for his craft does not lessen with his age or abilities. Every young reader should be required to read Hemingway...especially this one. Every old reader should read it again............or just watch this film It is very true to the spirit of the novel.

Ernest Hemingway's novella,The Old Man and the Sea was probably extremely difficult to film to begin with, but this didn't stop John Sturges from trying to put Hemingway's tight little character study into film.The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy. The screenplay was adapted by Peter Viertel from the novella and the film was directed by Sturges.Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore. Tracy's tiny boat is besieged by sharks and by natural elements, but the Old Man stubbornly sticks to his job. In the end, the fish is nothing more than a skeleton, and the Old Man returns to his tiny hovel. In this movie,Tracy did great great for himself as he was able to put to life a movie the features himself mostly with no other characters involved.I personally could say that he was born to play the old fisherman.As for the screenplay,the movie was a great adaptation of Hemingway's novella.The only negative thing I could say was that the film was very poor in its technical aspects as inconsistencies in very obvious all throughout many scenes.I could have given this movie a 10/10 rating if not for this.