Ernest Hemingway has had accusations of anti-Semitism hurled at him and no doubt because of the way Mel Ferrer's character of Robert Cohn is written. Ernest Hemingway being a veteran for the Republic was also not an author looked kindly on by the Caudillo. I'm guessing that Henry King did not film in Spain because the Franco dictatorship did not want a film that glorified the days before his dictatorship even under the monarchy which Franco swore to restore. The location cinematography is great from Paris to Mexico which substituted Spain for the famous bull fighting scenes and the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona. None of them measure up to Power, but Power can't give the lady what she most needs. And they do flock be it, exiled Count Gregory Ratoff, dissolute British army veteran Errol Flynn, self conscious Jew Mel Ferrer, and eager young bullfighter Robert Evans. All Power can do is watch how she collects the men around her. As a jaded sophisticate Gardner is great, but Hemingway again wrote about a lusty young woman with all her sexual appetites intact and unfulfilled. That fact has kept him from resuming a relationship with the love of his life, Lady Brett Ashley as played by Ava Gardner. The close brush with impotence himself no doubt inspired Hemingway to write The Sun Also Rises.
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Barnes received a war wound below decks just as Hemingway did in World War I. Tyrone Power is in the lead as Jake Barnes, the hero modeled after author Ernest Hemingway himself. Ironically this cast is a lost generation unto itself. They would have been a dream cast around 1946. The pity is that they all try very hard under an impossible burden of age. Maybe had the film been identified as 1932 instead of plainly set in 1922 Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, and Ava Gardner and the rest could have gotten away with those performances.
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The first was the ever present Code which prevented the frank discussion of impotency and secondly the fact that the cast was 15 to 20 years older than the roles they were portraying.
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Two insurmountable problems keep The Sun Also Rises from being a great film classic.