I started with going deep on #WalterReisch (set off by his co-write, with #BillyWilder, on #Ninotchka) and that led me #WilliForst, first as actor then director and producer, then #GezavonBolvary and the whole #ViennaFilms genre made in Germany beginning in the silent 1920's and continuing through WWII, with the consent of the #ThirdReich. #Lubitsch is here as is #ZoltanKorda and #AntonWalbrook, all in German. Have any of you #filmnerds been this way? Any tips?

Zoltan Korda’s The Macomber Affair (1947) is a good example of the impossibility of doing a good Hemingway adaptation. In the 40s and 50s his existentialism had to be hopelessly watered down. Today he's off limits.

This one rips the guts out of Hemingway's story. It becomes a conventional romantic triangle. All the Hemingway-esque elements are gone.

Joan Bennett does her best.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-macomber-affair-1947.html

#ernesthemingway #gregorypeck #JoanBennett #classicmovies #ZoltanKorda