Heads up: Hemingway's documentary "The Spanish Earth" - TCM @ 9am EST today

[Bozita]

A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. (1937)



http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/earth.html

Hemingway's War Movie

The Spanish Civil War, the second of three wars in which Hemingway saw action, and the one which produced his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls," was the most politically committed time of his life. He wrote commentary and helped raise finance for a propaganda film, shot by a Dutchman, Joris Ivens, and called "Spanish Earth."

Orson Welles, enlisted to record the commentary, wanted to change some of the lines which he thought sounded unduly pompous. At a viewing of the film, described by Welles in "Cahiers du Cinéma," he and Hemingway came to blows, going at each other with chairs and fists, as the armies fought it out on the screen in front of them.

The two American heavyweights were reconciled over a bottle of whiskey, and though Welles still gets the credit in some of the early prints, it is Hemingway's flat, harsh monotone that accompanies the film.

[T S Justly]

1. K&R (nt)

[idrahaje]

2. PBS link threw me....

kept waiting for it on pbs so I missed it..