Movie night

Ernest Hemingway's introspective one-episode novelette, The Old Man and the Sea, is virtually a one-character film, the spotlight being almost continuously on Spencer Tracy as the old Cuban fisherman who meets his final test in his tremendous struggle with the huge marlin.

Old Man and the Sea. 1958
Directors: John Sturges, Henry King

Writers: Ernest Hemingway (novel), Peter Viertel

Stars: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver

travel time 8 days
distance travelled 5,750 km
sent by Valérye in Princeville, Quebec, Canada

Srencer Tracy, 1937. Photo by Ted Allan

travel time 9 days
distance travelled 1,217 km
sent by Konstante in Kaltenkirchen, Germany