The Old Man and the Sea: Information from Answers.com

The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy. Tracy was nominated for a best actor Oscar, and the film won the Academy Award for best music with a score by Dimitri Tiomkin. It was also nominated for best cinematography.

The screenplay adaptation was done by Peter Viertel based on the book by Ernest Hemingway, and the film was directed by John Sturges.

There was a subsequent version made in 1990 for television starring Anthony Quinn.

Cast

In addition to Tracy, the cast included the following:

Felipe Pazos, the boy
Harry Bellaver, Martin
Don Diamond, café proprietor
Don Blackman, arm wrestler
Joey Ray, gambler
Mary Hemingway, tourist
Richard Alameda, gambler
Tony Rosa, gambler
Carlos Rivero, gambler
Robert Alderette, gambler
Mauritz Hugo, gambler

External links

The Old Man and the Sea at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e John Sturges

1940s	The Man Who Dared • Shadowed • Alias Mr. Twilight • For the Love of Rusty • Keeper of the Bees • The Sign of the Ram • Best Man Wins • The Walking Hills

1950s	The Magnificent Yankee • The Capture • Mystery Street • Right Cross • Kind Lady • The People Against O'Hara • It's a Big Country (with Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis and William A. Wellman) • The Girl in White • Jeopardy • Fast Company • Escape from Fort Bravo • Bad Day at Black Rock • Underwater! • The Scarlet Coat • Backlash • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral • The Law and Jake Wade • The Old Man and the Sea • Last Train from Gun Hill • Never So Few

1960s	The Magnificent Seven • By Love Possessed • Sergeants 3 • A Girl Named Tamiko • The Great Escape • The Satan Bug • The Hallelujah Trail • Hour of the Gun • Ice Station Zebra • Marooned

1970s	Joe Kidd • Valdez Horses • McQ • The Eagle Has Landed

v • d • e Films directed by Fred Zinnemann

1930s	Menschen am Sonntag • Redes • Friend Indeed • They Live Again • Tracking the Sleeping Death • That Mothers Might Live • The Story of Doctor Carver • Weather Wizards • While America Sleeps • Help Wanted • One Against the World • The Ash Can Fleet • Forgotten Victory

1940s	Stuffie • The Great Meddler • The Old South • A Way in the Wilderness • Forbidden Passage • Your Last Act • The Greenie • The Lady or the Tiger? • Kid Glove Killer • Eyes in the Night • The Seventh Cross • Little Mister Jim • My Brother Talks to Horses • The Search • Act of Violence

1950s	The Men • Benjy • Teresa • High Noon • The Member of the Wedding • From Here to Eternity • Oklahoma! • A Hatful of Rain • The Old Man and the Sea (uncredited) • The Nun's Story

1960s	The Sundowners • Behold a Pale Horse • A Man for All Seasons • Man's Fate (unfinished)

1970s	The Day of the Jackal • Julia

1980s	Five Days One Summer

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