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Set shows Hollywood tried to do justice to Hemingway's themes.(The Ernest Hemingway Classics Collection; Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; The Full Monty; Requiem; Strange Circus; Hawaii Five-O The First Season; The Miracle Maker: The Story of Jesus Special Edition; Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin; Peter Pan Platinum Edition; )(Video recording review)
Byline: Terry Lawson
A famous anecdote about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship to the movie business had him claiming that his involvement with movie versions of his novels extended only to his throwing his manuscripts over the California state line; he was not responsible for whatever happened after that.
But while Papa disavowed paternity for the films based on books, he got off easier than most authors of his era.
The new box set "The Ernest Hemingway Classics Collection" (Fox, $69.98) does not contain the best Hemingway adaptation _ the first, 1944 adaptation of "To Have and Have Not" or "The Old Man and the Sea," for which Spencer Tracy won a best actor Oscar. But it does have the more-than-respectable 1957 production of "The Sun Also Rises" (3 stars) directed by Henry King, and starring the virile and Oscar-nominated Errol Flynn.
The same director's even better 1952 …
