The Sun Also Rises Director: Henry King Cast: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn
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- DVD Release Date: 03/06/2007
- Original Release: 1957
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- Sales Rank: 14,641
Features
Commentary by film historians Patricia King Hanson & Frank Thompson; A conversation with director Henry King; The Old Men and the Bulls: The Making of "The Sun Also Rises"; Hemingway on film; Restoration comparison; Trailer; Still gallery
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Disc #1 -- The Sun Also Rises
1. Main Titles [:21]
2. Jake Barnes [1:46]
3. Georgette [2:52]
4. Bal Musette [2:22]
5. Smitten [4:02]
6. Yearning [1:39]
7. War Wound [3:24]
8. No Cure [:58]
9. Bill Arrives [3:50]
10. The Lost Generation [1:51]
11. Fiesta [5:42]
12. Rivals [:58]
13. Unloading the Bulls [5:12]
14. Running of the Bulls [2:03]
15. In the Arena [6:07]
16. Meeting the Matador [5:22]
17. Bullfight [:24]
18. Brett's Next Conquest [1:35]
19. Fireworks [1:45]
20. Behaving Badly [:39]
21. Fortune Teller [3:57]
22. Flaring Tempers [2:46]
23. Brett's Wounded [2:47]
24. The Matador's Art [3:20]
25. Sticking the Bull [1:07]
26. Moving On [3:42]
27. All Over [:08]
28. The Sun Also Rises [2:37]
Editorial Reviews
For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly portray Hemingway's "Lost Generation" protagonists. Tyrone Power heads the cast as American news correspondent Jake Barnes, who, after incurring a injury in WW I that has rendered him impotent, relocates to Paris to escape his troubles. Barnes links up with several other lost souls, including the nymphomaniacal Lady Brett Ashley (Ava Gardner), irresponsible drunkard Mike Campbell (Errol Flynn) and perennial hangers-on Robert Cohn (Mel Ferrer) and Bill Gorton (Eddie Albert). In their never-ending search for new thrills, Barnes and his cohorts trundle off to Spain, where they participate in the annual Pamplona bull run and act as unofficial "sponsors" of handsome young matador Pedro Romero (played by future film executive Robert Evans). Additionally, Lady Brett pursues a romance with Jake, despite her engagement to the dissolute Campbell. Filmed on location in Pamplona, Paris, Biarritz and Mexico, The Sun Also Rises was budgeted at $5 million; like many "big" pictures of the era, it tended to be hollow and draggy at times. The film's best performance is delivered by Errol Flynn, though it can be argued that, in taking on the role of the hedonistic, hard-drinking, burned-out Mike Campbell, he was merely playing himself. A vastly inferior version of The Sun Also Rises was produced for television in 1984. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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