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“The Sun Also Rises” was 20th Century Fox’s big-budget ‘prestige’ film
for 1957, based on Ernest Hemingway’s first modern, shot on plot in Paris and Mexico (substituting for Spain), and starring the studio’s long-reigning superstar, Tyrone Power, surrounded by legendary actors (Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Mel Ferrer, and Eddie Albert) . With all the talent assembled in front of and slack the camera, producer Darryl F. Zanuck felt confident that the film would be an enduring classic for both his beget independent company, and his studio.
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It wasn’t, unfortunately…
The film’s quandary was a fundamental one; the ‘Lost Generation’
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Hemingway wrote of were disillusioned young Americans, who, shattered
by the apprehension and brutality of the ‘Great War’, lost their innocence, and became a ‘live quick, die young’ crowd of expatriates, settling in Paris. These were men and women calm in their twenties and thirties…yet the film’s stars were all ten to twenty years older! The most glaring case can be seen in the film’s star, Tyrone Power. As newspaperman Jake Barnes, a vet whose war injuries render him impotent, unable to satisfy the woman he loves (Ava Gardner), and, therefore, the ‘perfect’ observer of her romantic entanglements with other men, Power seems more a victim of a midlife crisis than a young man devastated about losing his manhood. In his next-to-last film, Power, at 44, was aging badly, his hair thinning and his slender, ‘movie idol’ edifying looks surrendering to a middle-aged paunch. Only when he smiles do the years seem to occupy, a bit, and the “too comely to be moral” younger man appears. Adding to his physical deterioration was an undiagnosed heart condition, which would ruin him, in less than two years.
His co-star, Ava Gardner, at 35, was going through a decline, as well, but, like her character, Lady Brett Ashley, her vices were the cause of her self-destruction. Both Brett and Ava were hedonistic women too fond of booze, bullfighters, and nightlife, and Ava’s once-classic features were beginning to produce bags and wrinkles that makeup and lighting couldn’t screen.
Coming off best are Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert. Flynn, at 48, long past his ‘glamorous’ prime (he and Power had been Hollywood’s best-looking ’swashbucklers’ of the early 40s), had become a very credible character actor, usually portraying variations of himself. His ‘Mike Campbell’, an alcoholic, impoverished but clinging to his pride, was, sadly, a dead-on assessment of Errol Flynn, as well. Like Power, he would be expressionless in two years, a victim of his absorb excesses. On the other hand, Eddie Albert, at 49, had long been health-conscious, and his performance as a drunk was simply top-notch acting; paired with Flynn, they ’steal’ the film, particularly during the well-known Pamplona bull race, when the duo soar for their lives (while guzzling wine), and Flynn attempts to exhaust a terrible check as a cape to ‘fight’ a bull!
The drama seems overdrawn, the romance lacks ‘fire’, Robert Evans as a young bullfighter is terrible, and the resolution is a hollow one. Even with the radiant scenery, Hugo Friedhofer’s soaring film win, and Henry King’s skill as a director, the film fails to generate more than a curiosity value, at the glance of so many actors, past their prime, trying to seem youthful and dynamic.
The DVD offers many ‘added features’, including ‘behind the scenes’ photos of Power, Flynn, and Gardner, and director Henry King’s audio reminiscences of the production, possibly more enchanting than the feature, itself.
All-in-all, an ambitious misfire!
The 1926 “Sun Also Rises” was Ernest Hemingway’s first full-length modern. In the 1957 movie-version, Hollywood stars narrate Hemingway’s “Lost Generation”. Tyrone Power heads the cast as American news journalist Jake Barnes, who, after a World War I injury that has left him impotent, re-locates to Paris. Barnes links up with other lost souls, including the nymphomaniacal Lady Ashley(Ava Gardner) and the irresponsible drunkard Mike Campbell(Errol Flynn) . Barnes and his friends disappear to Spain, and participate in the annual Pamplona running-of-the-bulls. The fun is objective beginning. The cast includes Mel Ferrer, Eddie Albert, and Henry Daniell. The film’s best performance is delivered by Errol Flynn. It has been said that, in his role of the hedonistic, hard-drinking Mike Campbell, that he was merely playing himself. Fair or not, Hollywood took note; a film career was re-vitalized. His inviting performance here is classic. Sadly, decay from alcohol dimmed his future. He died two years later(Tyrone Power himself died two years later shooting “Solomon and Sheba” of a hear attack) . Filmed on state in Pamplona, Paris, Biarritz, and Mexico, “THe Sun Also Rises” was budgeted at $5 million. This sign unusual DVD transfer is the second DVD release, as it was also produced in August 2006, in a bare-bones edition. Cinema Club’s fresh DVD features many extras: Commentary by Frank Thompson, a conversation with director Henry King, a documentary on the production, the restoration, and Hemingway. There is also a trailer and a stills gallery. Colors are shiny. Blacks are pitch. This is outstanding, as the DVD is a crude bitrate, single-layered disc. Audio is adequate but without worthy range. “The Sun Also Rises” is the classic yarn of American ex-patriates caught up in dancing, parties, and drinking-til-dawn. What fun. What sadness. As the recount ends, one character sums it all up: “It’s all like a improbable nightmare. I contain in anything. Including nightmares..”
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