[Old and Reliable]

And not just because I sent you both that VCR of the movie with George C. Scott, but also a VCR copy of the Spencer Tracy- Hemingway's Nobel wining "The Old Man and The Sea"--

If you want insight into Hemingway- read that novel pages 96-97 beginning with the line- "Then he thought that was as--- and ending with "There had been no sorrow at all"!!

I have always wondered who in real life Thomas Hudson's best friend in the novel, Roger the writer was. John Dos Passos?

I believe one of George C. Scott's wives played the part of the local hooker who invited the character Thomas Hudson up to her place for some "Afternoon Delight"--

The central character was depicted as a painter in the novel, in the movie he was a sculptor who worked in metal. As a welder by trade, they even got the period goggles and the 3-tubed Smiths combo torch unit correct.

Yes, David Hemmings played "Eddie"- and killing a shark in a rolling sea with a BAR would be no mean feat indeed!!