The Sun Also Rises (1984 film)

The Sun Also Rises is a 1984 adaptation of Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises. Hart Bochner, Jane Seymour, Robert Carradine, Ian Charleson and Leonard Nimoy have starring roles. It aired on NBC on Sunday, December 9, and Monday, December 10, from 911 pm.

NBC had to acquire the production rights from 20th Century Fox, who produced the 1957 film adaptation. Like the source, the work is set in France and Spain. In order to attempt to be true to the 1920s setting some Pamplona scenes were shot in Segovia and some Paris scenes were shot in Versailles because neither Paris nor Pamplona looked like they did 60 years earlier.According to John J. OConnor of The New York Times virtually all nuances that differ from the source are not well executed. Peoples Fred Hauptfuhrer notes that Hemingway purists may be offended by some of the changes. Arthur Unger of The Christian Science Monitor described this production as a minor literary classic, which has now been turned into a major miniseries disaster. Stephen Farber of The New York Times recounts numerous elements depicted in the film that were not in the source material such as ........

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