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Screenplay by DENNE BART PETITCLERC...
Beauty and Mystery. Denne Bart Petitclerc's script drastically compresses and rearranges Hemingway's story. At times this is all to the good: Petitclerc shears away reams of embarrassingly arch, blustery episodes and mannered barroom colloquies. Too often, though, what he salvages tends toward the simplistic and the soapy. This tendency is hardly helped by the hopelessly stilted direction of Franklin J. Schaffner (who directed Scott to somewhat better effect in Patton). Here is a movie about freedom, art, love and death, and there is not a breath of poetry in it. Indeed, it is most prosaic when...
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