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Director Sam Wood has done a dramatically effective job of converting Ernest Hemingway's tight drama of guerilla warfare into a movie, but he has run into difficulty in neglecting the major ideas of the book. The book would make no sense without the love plot; it holds the story together and provides real element of tragedy. Yet the movie glosses the subtleties of the love sequence, leaving the viewer with the impression that he has seen some good war scenes, and some good love scenes, with very little to relate them to each other...
Certain vital parts of the book cannot, unfortunately, be put on film, and this is a major fault. Hemingway's crude but effective metaphysics are mostly neglected, and when inserted artificially in the last scene ("You go. And when you go I will go with you. Because I am you.") become more a source of amusement than anything else...
...reassuring to see that in 26 years both Mr. Hemingway's views and his iceberg have remained so solid. One wonders, however, if the move from above to beneath the water is an evidence of Mr. Hemingway's progression in depth, or a reflection of the modern quest for a place to hide...
...lower slopes of the Mount Kilimanjaro that Hemingway celebrated lives a tribe almost unique in Africa-Christian, prosperous (with a $6.000,000-to-$8,000.000 annual coffee crop), and ruled by a British-educated chief known as King Tom. In the land of the Chagga, whites work for the blacks-and both accomplish a lot. See FOREIGN NEWS, "Look What...
Rising a majestic 19,565 feet into the clouds from the hot and dry plains of Tanganyika is snow-capped Kilimanjaro -the Mountain of Brightness in Swahili, a Hemingway setting to U.S. readers, the Seat of God to the Chagga tribesmen who live upon its lower slopes. Chagga legend has it that the great god Ruwa liberated mankind by smashing a vessel in which the first humans were imprisoned and scattering them over the mountainside. Actually, the 360,000 people of Chagga-land are a mixture of many tribes who for some five centuries have dwelt among Kilimanjaro...