HEMINGWAY: FILMS, VIDEO, AUDIO —
CRITICISM, LIFE, TIMES, ADAPTATIONS, WORKS
A List of English Language Media Gathered from Many Sources as of September, 2005*
With Sporadic Annotations and Observations by the Compiler
AUDIO
Ernest Hemingway Reads. Caedmon Audio [cassette]; 45 min.; recorded 1948-1961. Remastered 1992. Harper Collins. c1968, 1998.
Includes: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech; Second Poem to Mary; In Harry’s Bar in Venice; The Fifth Column; Work in
Progress; Saturday Night at the Whorehouse in Billings, Montana.
CRITICISM
American Writers II: Hemingway. 2002. VHS. 3:30. Mariel Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner host interviews, calls from viewers,
archival audio and film, on location. Book TV. CSPAN.
Hemingway: An American Icon. 1999. Book TV (CSPAN). Michael Reynolds interview.
Hemingway and the Natural World. 1997. VHS. Birthday Lecture at Oak Park by Bedford Sylvester. Hemingway Foundation of Oak
Park.
Hemingway and Writing About War. 2004. Book TV (CSPAN). Sean Hemingway, ed. of book on the topic, and panel at JFK Library.
Hemingway Centennial Lectures at Oak Park. 1999. 5 VHS. Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. 1) Beegel; 2) Reynolds; 3) Nagel;
4) Patrick Hemingway; 5) Panel.
Hemingway in the Autumn: Ernest Hemingway in Idaho. 1999. VHS. 51 min. Susan Beegel, Mike Reynolds, Jack Hemingway, Tillie
Arnold, and others. Ketchum: Centennial Entertainment.
Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship. 2000. Book TV (CSPAN). Scott Donaldson discusses his
book.
LIFE
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen. 2002. [AKA "Cooper & Hemingway: A 20 Year Friendship"]. NA
Death of Hemingway. 1965.
Ernest Hemingway: Grace Under Pressure. 1986. Documentary film.
Ernest Hemingway: Profiles. 1999. Bravo TV. 1 hour. Biographical material and interview about In Love and War.
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea. 2005. PBS. TV. DVD/VHS. 1:30. Emphasis on writing career; readings from Hemingway’s
works; archival footage; interviews with Spanier, Patrick Hemingway, Valerie Hemingway and others. Dir., Dewitt Sage.
Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life. 1999. Second A & E TV biography. DVD/VHS. Mariel Hemingway narrates; interviews with
sons and others.
Hemingway. 1987; 1994. TV documentaries.
Hemingway [Aka Stacy Keach as Hemingway]. 1988. TV mini-series: 5 hours. DVD ( 2 discs) 2001. Based on Collected Letters and
the Baker biography, filmed on location.
Hemingway Home in Piggott, Ark. 2000. HGTV. Restoration of Pauline’s home and conversion into a museum.
Hemingway in Cuba. DVD. Television documentary. Prod. Hilary Hemingway. WGCU, Florida Gulf Coast University, 2004.
Hemingway in Michigan. 1999. VHS. Little Traverse Historical Museum volunteers walk through Hemingway sites in Petoskey and
environs.
Hemingway: Mysteries and Scandals. 1999. E! TV. 1 hour. Despite Susan Beegel interview, superficial and sensationalized biography
of Ernest Hemingway. Emphasis on scandal.
Hemingway vs. Callaghan. 2003. CBC TV. Morley Callaghan’s memoir, My Summer in Paris, adapted for television. 4 hours.
Hemingway, the Hunter of Death. 2001. Adventure drama. Albert Finney plays Hemingway. Story of a scientific safari in 1950s
Kenya. NA.
Hemingway: Winner Take Nothing. [Aka Winner Take Nothing]. 1998. VHS. 86 min. Margaux Hemingway and her father Jack
retrace her grandfather’s travels in Europe [completed before her death in 1996]. MPI Media.
Hemingway’s Cuba. 2005. DVD/VHS. Mariel Hemingway visits her grandfather’s former haunts in Cuba. 50 Min. Food TV.
Hemingway’s Ghost. 2000. Dir. Travis Hawkins. Short film (48 min.). NA.
Hemingway’s Key West.1999. Book TV (CSPAN). A. E. Hotchner describes the town as part of CSPAN’s centennial homage to
Hemingway.
In Love and War. 1996. DVD/VHS. 1:53. Purportedly, an adaptation based on letters between Ernest and Agnes Kurowsky. Sandra
Bullock. Dir. Richard Attenborough.
Intimate Portrait: Mariel Hemingway. 1998. TV. VHS. 43 min. Mariel’s career and family history, including grandfather, Ernest.
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Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure. [Aka Hemingway Adventure.] 1999. TV. Palin retraces Hemingway’s travels to various
locations, beginning in Illinois and Michigan. DVD/VHS. 4 hours.
Papa. 1987. Stage production.
Papa Hemingway. 1999. 30 minutes. Book TV (CSPAN). A. E. Hotchner discusses his acquaintance with Ernest Hemingway.
Papa's Place: A Look at Cuba Now. [Aka Hemingway in Cuba]. 1999. TV. 1:30. CBS Sunday Morning observed the centennial.
Reporting America at War. 2003. PBS TV. Historic footage; Hemingway, Gellhorn (interview).
UNTITLED ERNEST HEMINGWAY PROJECT. 2006. Centers on the romance between Ernest and Martha Gellhorn.
UNTITLED ERNEST HEMINGWAY PROJECT. Reputedly, Anthony Hopkins and Meg Ryan are involved. Biographical, so the
rumor has it.
TIMES
Buena Vista Social Club. 1999. DVD/VHS. 105 min. Old time Cuban jazz musicians rediscovered. And they are acclaimed without a
single mention of Ernest Hemingway. On location in Cuba and New York.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1987. A & E biography. One hour.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1997. Second A & E biography of Fitzgerald. Interviews with Garrison Keillor and scholars. One hour.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams. 2001. PBS TV biography by Dewitt Sage. 1:30.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Mysteries and Scandals. 2000. E! TV. Sensationalized decline of Fitzgerald.
Giada’s Italian Holiday. 2005. DVD/VHS. Visit to Harry’s Bar in Venice and other locations. 50 min. Food TV.
Gift of the Game. 2003. DVD. Novelist and baseball stars (including former Detroit Tiger Jon Warden) restart the youth baseball
league in Cuba, initiated by Ernest Hemingway. 56 min.
Forgotten Island, The: Cuba. 1999. DVD. 156 minutes. Three documentary programs: “Cuba’s Conquistadores” [mobsters and
revolutionaries], “Return to Havana” [cultural history, music and dance], “Hemingway’s Cuba” [Hollywood stars before the
revolution]. Archival footage, interviews, Cuban music. Richmond Hill, Ontario: BFS.
Kilimanjaro: A Naked Planet Special. 2004. 1 hour. TV. Legends and geography of the literarily famous mountain.
Lost Generation, The. 1987. Stage production.
Lost Generation, The. 2001. TV. A & E Biography Special. 2:00. American literary figures/expatriates 1920s Paris.
Ojibwa of Michigan. 32 minutes. Ojibwa/Chippewa of Northern Michigan and Wisconsin: history and culture. Instructional
documentary. NA except in libraries.
Paris Was a Woman. VHS. 75 minutes. Documentary. Women artists and authors of the “Lost Generation” in early 20 th century Paris.
Dir. Greta Schiller. New York: Zeitgeist, 1997.
FILMS IN WHICH ERNEST HEMINGWAY IS A CHARACTER
The Moderns. 1988. DVD. 2:06 hours. A gruff Hemingway character appears in this story of a painter of forgeries (Keith Carradine)
in 1926 Paris. Orion. DVD: MGM Home Entertainment, 2002.
Wings of Fame. 1990. 1:49. VHS. Colin Firth and Peter O’Toole. Assassin and political victim find themselves on an island after they
die. Celebrities stay there until their fame on earth dissipates. Hemingway is a perennial resident and spends most of his time
shooting into the sky.
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway. 1993. Robert Duvall (retired Cuban barber) and Richard Harris as old coots try to impress each other;
one claims to have once wrestled Ernest Hemingway and won—but Ernest never appears in the film. VHS.
ADAPTATIONS
Short Stories
After the Storm. 2002. Made for TV. DVD. Adaptation by A. E. Hotchner. Script is available in print.
Battler, The . 1956. Originally aired in the TV series Playwrights ’56. VHS. B&W. 60 minutes. Paul Newman. Nostalgia Family
Video, 1997.
Battler, The. 1955. TV.
Best of Friends. [“Three Day Blow”]. 1987. Made for TV.
Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A. 2002. Adaptation. NA.
Ernest Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man. [AKA Adventures of a Young Man and Hemingway’s . . . ].1962. Selected Nick
Adams stories woven into a single narrative. Richard Beymer; Arthur Kennedy; dir. Martin Ritt. Adaptation by A. E.
Hotchner. NA.
Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants. DVD. 35 minutes. Faithful depiction of the story. Los Angeles: Steven Brabson,
2003. [Withdrawn from circulation; dispute over rights.]
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Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers. [AKA The Killers]. DVD. 2 discs with three versions of the story. 1) Director Robert Siodmak, with
Burt Lancaster, 1946, 102 minutes [AKA Man Alone]. The opening is faithful to the original story. 2) Andreis Tarkovsky’s
student film version, 1956, 94 minutes. 3) Director Don Siegel, with Lee Marvin, 1964. Originally made for television, it was
considered too violent for the medium. Not faithful to the original. Criterion Collection, 2005.
Fifty Grand. 1952, 1958. Television dramatization.
Gambler, the Nun and the Radio, The. 1959. Televsion dramatization.
God Rest You Merry, Gentleman. 2005. Short film. NA.
Hills Like White Elephants. 2002. Directed by Paige Cameron. 38 min.
Indian Camp. 1990. VHS. Indian Camp Production. 14 min.
Killers, The. 1959. Television dramatization.
Macomber Affair, The. [AKA Great White Hunter]. [“The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber”]. 1947. Robert Preston; Joand
Bennett; dir. Zoltan Korda. 89 min. NA.
My Old Man. 1950. NA.
My Old Man. 1979. DVD. Made for TV.
Short Happy Life, A. [“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”] 1961. Stage production.
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The. 1952. VHS/DVD. 1:57. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward. Director: Henry King.
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The. 1959. TV.
Soldier’s Home. 1977. Made for TV: American Short Story series, PBS. VHS.
Soldier’s Home. 1988. VHS. [With Bernice Bobs Her Hair-Fitzgerald]. Coronet/MTI. 1:30.
Under My Skin. [“My Old Man”]. 1950. John Garfield. Dir. Jean Negulesco. 86 min. NA.
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction. 1990. VHS. 90 minutes. “Hills Like White Elephants” with Melanie Griffith and James Wood.
Also “The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit” and “Dusk Before Fireworks.” HBO. TV.
World of Nick Adams, The. 1957. Made for TV. A. E. Hotchner adaptation. NA.
Novels
Breaking Point, The. [To Have and Have Not[. 1950. John Garfield; Patricia Neal; dir. Michael Curtiz. 94 min. NA.
Climax! [AKA Climax Mystery Theater.] Episode entitled “A Farewell to Arms.” 1954 TV series. NA.
Farewell to Arms, A. 1966. Made for TV. NA.
Farewell to Arms, A. 1957. DVD/VHS. Rock Hudson; Jennifer Jones; dir. Charles Vidor. 152 min.
Farewell to Arms, A. 1932. DVD/VHS. Gary Cooper; Helen Hayes; dir. Frank Borsage.
Farewell to Arms, A. Radio productions: 1938, 1942, 1948, 1949, 1950. Stage play: 1930. Television dramatization: 1955.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1943. DVD/VHS. Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Dir. Sam Wood. 2:30.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1965. Made for TV. NA. Radio productions: 1949, 1959.
Girls! Girls! Girls [ To Have and Have Not]. 1962. Elvis Presley (Really!). Adaptation as a musical.
Gun Runners. [AKA Gunrunners]. [To Have and Have Not]. 1958. Audie Murphy; Eddie Albert; dir. Don Siegel. 83 min. NA.
Islands in the Stream. 1977. DVD. 104 minutes. George C. Scott. Dir. Franklin Schaffner. Outstanding performance by Scott.
Excerpts from the novel mingled with excerpts from other works. Set in Bimini and Cuba but filmed in Hawaii. New
remastered DVD edition 2005.
Old Man and the Sea, The. 1958. DVD/VHS. Spencer Tracy; dir. John Sturges. The Hollywood film Hemingway was most involved
in the production of—but unsuccessfully and unhappily. He said, “No picture with a f***ing rubber fish ever made a dime!”
87 min.
Old Man and the Sea, The. 1990. Made for TV. Anthony Quinn.
Old Man and the Sea, The. DVD. 48 minutes. Animated, originally made for Imax theaters; Academy Award for animation. Visually
creative. Features “Making of . . .” and “Hemingway—A Portrait.” Alexander Petrov director,animator. Pascal Blaise,1999.
DVD 2004.
Sun Also Rises, The. 1957. Tyrone Power; Ava Gardner; Mel Ferrer; dir. Henry King. 129 min. NA.
Sun Also Rises, The. 1984. Made for TV. Hart Bochner; Jane Seymour; Robert Carradine; dir. James Goldstone. 240 min. NA.
To Have and Have Not. 1944. VHS/DVD. 100 minutes. [Aka Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not.] Humphrey Bogart;
Lauren Bacall. Screenwriters: Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. Dir. Howard Hawks. DVD features Lux Radio
Production and “Making of. . . .” The setting is moved to World War II Martinique. Warner Bros. DVD Warner
Entertainment, 2003.
To Have and Have Not. 1946: radio production. 1957: TV. NA.
DRAMA
Fifth Column, The. Pubished 1938. 1959-1960: TV adaptation by A. E. Hotchner, produced for CBS, Buick Electra Theater. Staged in
New York, 1930, 1940 [ran 2 ½ months in 1940]. Hotchner adaptation staged 1990 in St. Louis. NA.
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WRITTEN AND NARRATED BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Spanish Earth, The. 1937. [AKA This Spanish Earth]. English narration written and delivered by Hemingway. Archibald Macleish
and Lillian Hellman wrote the scenario. Propaganda documentary for the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War. 54 minutes.
Director: Joris Ivens. DVD/VHS. One DVD version [Slingshot Entertainment, 2000] also contains Ivens’s 1938 film of the
Chinese battle against invading Japanese, The 400 Million. This disc includes the Orson Welles narration for The Spanish
Earth.
ACTOR
Sea, The. 1958. NA.
HIMSELF
Circle of Honor. 2002-2003. TV. Archival footage of Ernest in episode #1.3: “Ernest Hemmingway" [sic]. NA.
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 3. 1942. Guest appearance.
Kid Stays in the Picture, The. 2002. Archival footage of Hemingway and other celebrities. Solipsistic quasi-memoir by director
Robert Evans. Many detractors, some enthusiastic supporters. DVD/VHS.
Life and Times. 1996/2000/2003. Archival footage in episode: "Yousuf Karsh: A Moment in Time." CBC TV. Interviews with the
photographer of the best-known photo portrait of Ernest (in the turtleneck for the Life cover). NA.
BOOKS ABOUT HEMINGWAY AND FILM
Laurence, Frank M. Hemingway and the Movies. Jackson: U of Mississippi, 1981. [Extremely detailed, comprehensive analysis of
stories and adaptations, a classic on the topic; out of print].
Leff, Leonard J. Hemingway and His Conspirators : Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture. NY:
Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
Oliver, Charles M. Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. NY: Checkmark/Facts on File, 1999.
[“Film, Stage, Television, and Radio Adaptations of Hemingway’s Works and Works about Hemingway” pp. 398-399; brief
discussions of each work within the encyclopedic text].
Oliver, Charles M. A Moving Picture Feast: The Filmgoer’s Hemingway. NY: Praeger, 1989.
Phillips, Gene D. Hemingway and Film. NY: Ungar, 1980. [In-depth analyses of the films and stories they were adapted from; out of
print].
Reynolds, Michael S. Hemingway’s First War: The Making of A Farewell to Arms. Princteon: Princeton U. P., 1976.
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SOURCES
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For video editions of these films: Amazon.com; Borders; Facets.org; DVDplanet.com; MoviesUnlimited.com; TCM.com,
AMC.com, PBS.org, Booktv.org, Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park: ehfop.org.
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Information and indexes of films: IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database)
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NA = Not currently (September 2005) available on DVD, VHS, or other medium in the retail market. Availability can change
without notice.
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*The number of films and television programs related to Ernest Hemingway is enormous and grows by the day, with several new ones
in production at any given time. Please note any new titles that you may find and send them by email to the Michigan Hemingway
Society via its web site. We appreciate your assistance.
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Courtesy: Arthur Wagner for the Michigan Hemingway Society
September 20, 2005
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