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Don Blackman appears in The Old Man and the Sea, the film adaptation of the book by Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea, first published in 1952.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
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John Sturges, Fred Zinnemann, 1958
The Old Man in the film is a Cuban fisherman who has gone 84 days without a catch. On the Old Man’s 85th day out, he finally hooks a huge marlin, which he then tries to bring in and haul in from far out from shore. For three days and nights he battles the fish, which is portrayed in the film as a trial of mental and physical courage that becomes the ultimate test for him of his worth as a man.