Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues Puting aside all Hemingway means as successful writer he had a bad behavior about the primitive bullfightes where in Spain,Portugal,mainly in Latin America this kind of outdated game stand for the lower ground of society,God's sake this games have been banned nowadays,the picture unfortunately is around this bloody game....the picture disgrace a great Errol Flynn who play itself as a drunk man,they could spare your name for this mess,in fact bad miscasting in this movie,the whole thing are saved by Tyrone and Ava with your endless beauty,the movie has some moments that deserves a propper respect,daring to touch in a very important matter as sexual impotence in that time,by this and Ava 7/10!!Resume:First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

wes-connors After the Great War (aka World War I), a "lost generation of young people" gathers in Paris, where they find happiness elusive. The focus is mainly on newspaperman Tyrone Power (as Jake Barnes), who may be impotent due to a war injury, and sexually insatiable Ava Gardner (as Brett Ashley). She also attracts Mr. Power's athletic friend Mel Ferrer (as Robert Cohn). The two men receive stiff competition from perpetually tipsy Errol Flynn (as Michael "Mike" Campbell), who is Ms. Garner's fiancé. When we meet her, Garner is trying to quit drinking. She falls off the wagon quickly...After Power's fun-loving pal Eddie Albert (as Bill Gorton) arrives, everyone meets for "the running of the bulls" in Spain. There, Gardner is aroused by young bullfighter Robert Evans (as Pedro Romero)...Reportedly unconvincing during the rushes, Mr. Evans was supposed to be fired, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck famously said, "The kid stays in the picture!" Evans does look silly, but at least he's the right age. Others in the cast are clearly too old for Ernest Hemingway's youthful characters. Only Mr. Flynn manages to essay a characterization worth noting; he placed fourth in the annual "Best Supporting Actor" poll conducted by the "Film Daily". Director Henry King and photographer Leo Tover put the drinkers in a nice-looking CinemaScope landscape that does not help the story.**** The Sun Also Rises (8/23/57) Henry King ~ Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Mel Ferrer

bkoganbing Two insurmountable problems keep The Sun Also Rises from being a great film classic. The first was the ever present Code which prevented the frank discussion of impotency and secondly the fact that the cast was 15 to 20 years older than the roles they were portraying. Maybe had the film been identified as 1932 instead of plainly set in 1922 Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, and Ava Gardner and the rest could have gotten away with those performances. The pity is that they all try very hard under an impossible burden of age. They would have been a dream cast around 1946. Ironically this cast is a lost generation unto itself.Tyrone Power is in the lead as Jake Barnes, the hero modeled after author Ernest Hemingway himself. Barnes received a war wound below decks just as Hemingway did in World War I. The close brush with impotence himself no doubt inspired Hemingway to write The Sun Also Rises. That fact has kept him from resuming a relationship with the love of his life, Lady Brett Ashley as played by Ava Gardner. As a jaded sophisticate Gardner is great, but Hemingway again wrote about a lusty young woman with all her sexual appetites intact and unfulfilled. All Power can do is watch how she collects the men around her.And they do flock be it, exiled Count Gregory Ratoff, dissolute British army veteran Errol Flynn, self conscious Jew Mel Ferrer, and eager young bullfighter Robert Evans. None of them measure up to Power, but Power can't give the lady what she most needs.The location cinematography is great from Paris to Mexico which substituted Spain for the famous bull fighting scenes and the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona. I'm guessing that Henry King did not film in Spain because the Franco dictatorship did not want a film that glorified the days before his dictatorship even under the monarchy which Franco swore to restore. Ernest Hemingway being a veteran for the Republic was also not an author looked kindly on by the Caudillo.Ernest Hemingway has had accusations of anti-Semitism hurled at him and no doubt because of the way Mel Ferrer's character of Robert Cohn is written. Cohn has sustained a lot of prejudice in his life, he became a boxer in college to help deal with it. He's also a bumptious sort, Power tolerates him even likes him on a certain level. The others in the group make it plain every way they don't want him around. But he's under Gardner's spell and there's no talking to him. In many ways Mel Ferrer does the best acting job in the film.The Sun Also Rise marks Power's farewell film at the studio which carefully nurtured his stardom, 20th Century Fox. It also was his ninth and last film with director Henry King. It was at Fox where Power got his breakthrough role in Lloyd's Of London, also directed by Henry King. They had quite a screen partnership themselves and are rarely discussed as a director/actor team.This is one film that could stand a remake, but where could you get a cast as classy as this one today even if they are a generation behind to be making The Sun Also Rises.

pninson Filming Hemingway's introspective, brooding novel "The Sun Also Rises" was a major challenge. Much of the power of Hemingway's story stems from what is not said, what is left out, what is suggested or only hinted at.In Virginia Woolf's novel "To The Lighthouse", the author goes inside everyone's mind and tells you exactly what all the characters are thinking. "The Sun Also Rises" is the opposite: you read what the characters say to each other and do in public, but even Jake Barnes, the narrator and central character, leaves most of his feelings unspoken. He pushes them aside and tries to soldier on in spite of them.This is obviously not something that can work on screen. However, this A-list adaptation succeeds, up to a point, in bringing the novel to life without making too much explicit. Although some of the performers are miscast and are much older than the characters in the book, there are solid performances all around.Those who haven't read the book may find this film slow and rambling. This is not a tightly plotted story; it's more of a character study, as well as a look at a time and place where people were disillusioned and living on the edge of hope. The film does compensate for the loose narrative with spectacular sequences of bullfighting and the running of the bulls at Pamplona.I originally saw this film in 1971 on a small black and white TV with commercial breaks; I may have even missed the first few minutes. It's a real treat to have the color widescreen Cinemascope presentation available on DVD. Despite its weaknesses, I do like this picture and it really needs a good widescreen transfer to fully appreciate it.