If you have read the Hemingway story you will be disappointed, because this is - surprise! :-) - the Hollywood version of the story (much more simple and shallow and simple) with an altogether different ending. Also, the movie-makers have taken material from other Hemingway stories - about other characters - and mixed with the Kilimanjaro story. Still, it retains something of Hemingway as well.
Gregory Peck is handsome as ever, and Ava Gardner is gorgeous as ever. The scenes from Africa are also unusually realistic for the time. One can see that not all of it is shot in a studio.
As a woman, I can also relate very much to Ava Gardner's character. She wanted so much to have a child, to have something to hold onto in the world. But when the child she was carrying would have come between her and her lover - or this was what she feared - as it did not fit in with his life plan at that time, she got rid of it, masking the abortion as an accident. Very many women all through the ages, have been in the same situation. And very many men have had it on their conscience.
Gregory Peck is handsome as ever, and Ava Gardner is gorgeous as ever. The scenes from Africa are also unusually realistic for the time. One can see that not all of it is shot in a studio.
As a woman, I can also relate very much to Ava Gardner's character. She wanted so much to have a child, to have something to hold onto in the world. But when the child she was carrying would have come between her and her lover - or this was what she feared - as it did not fit in with his life plan at that time, she got rid of it, masking the abortion as an accident. Very many women all through the ages, have been in the same situation. And very many men have had it on their conscience.