lmiller_10 This was not a film worthy of Tony Quinn. It pales when compared with the Spencer Tracy version. The Quinn effort did not follow the book except a little. People were brought in for some unknown reason who were not in the book and didn't add anything to the story line. The original was a LOT better and followed the book almost to the letter. I realize that the original version was become hard to find, but I bet a look on ebay, Google, or Amazon would turn up a copy. I think that you would really enjoy it. I have a copy of the original Spenser Tracy version and plan to watch it with the book in hand to see how close it is to the book

Badgirl99124 WARNING!! This is a spoiler!I'm a 9th grader and as a class we read and saw the movie The Old Man in the Sea. The old man never gives up so you have to be ready to go in his adventures in fishing. His adventures are not that interesting but he never gave up. He knew that some day he was going to catch a fish. The book was not interesting but the movie was interesting. In the movie the old man promises his wife that he was always going to go fishing on his skiff. If you watched the movie you will see that he never breaks his promise. It looked like that old man was real in love with his wife and was willing to do anything to stay with her. But, we still don't know what happened with her we don't know if she died or if she still alive. In the book the old man doesn't have a daughter and in the movies he does. His daughter was always trying to get him to live with her but he never wanted to. The old man needs a woman in his life because the old man looks to dirty. Even though he thinks that he can make it like that I don't think he can. The old man is sick he needs someone to take care of him. Even though he knows that he sick he still refuses to move with his daughter. The old man had a little friend named Manolin that was always there for him. The little boy is like 10 years old in the movie but he is real helpful to the old man. The old man and the little boy were fans of the Yankees and that never changed. Their favorite player was DiMaggio. He was a great player back in the day. They both had faith in the Yankees they knew that the Yankees wasn't going to let them down. At the end the old man catches a fish reaching his goal. He was trying to catch a fish for over 84 days and he never gave up. The old man reached his goal without a problem. While he was out there getting a fish people thought that he was dead or something had happened to him. He was thinking about the day he got married with his wife. The old man never broke his promise and that's what I really like about him in the story. Most of the guys in the book that never talked to him would have given up but he didn't. He kept going until he reached his goal and most men wouldn't be able to do what he did. If you want to know more I suggest you watch the movie because it's better than the book.

dakiid4 Warning: This may be a spoiler. I think that The Old man and The Sea is not a good movie. I thought that this was very boring and not very interesting. The book was way much better then the movie ever was. In the movie the old man was very stupid and the boy Manolin's voice was very annoying and not pleasurable. But I felt his love for the old man and his pain and passion. That I felt from the book. But everything else lacked credibility. When he got the fish it looked so fake because the boat was half way up and the fish was all the way down. The marlin looked plastic and rubber and very fake. I thought they dragged out the movie and made it too long. In the book he didn't have a daughter and they could at least made the daughter nicer and not look like a man. I thought she was very mean and didn't care about her daddy. But the movie was very boring and I didn't enjoy it one bit. I thought they could of made the movie much better and made it like the book. So I give the movie no star because it was not interesting.

Chucu1989 Caution: This is a definite Spoiler Warning to anyone who has not read the book!!!! I liked the movie a little bit. It was a possible 1. But they took away a lot of interesting things in the story. I wanted to see the lions on the beach, not his wedding and his childhood. The marlin bones looked like paper. The acting of Quinn was making me laugh out loud because it was so melodramatic. People who have seen marlin know that it was the marlin was a fake. They put Ernest Hemingway in for no reason. He never talks to Santiago at all throughout the whole movie. They kept going to Hemingway and his wife for no reason; I don't want to see his childhood.This really bothers me, his daughter in the movie is his daughter in real life and she looks like a man, and her acting is really bad. The person who is supposed to be him in the flashback is his son. Why did they do that? Do they not have enough money to use real actors besides Anthony Quinn? They acted so bad that the whole class laughed at it through the whole movie. They really shouldn't stop between every little thing because it distracts us from the movie. The only thing I liked was that they used a people who looked Cuban. The new parts add nothing to the understanding. It does not help me imagine the story better; I had a much better idea on what it would be like. Nothing like what I thought it would be. Now what I give the movie is a low, low, low rating, I give this sorry movie a 0.1. The point one is because they used authentic people for the movie. The rest is just bad. Well, that's the end of my review.