Title
Ernest Hemingway, Screenwriter: Letters About For Whom the Bell Tolls
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Reprints Hemingway’s 1942 correspondence with Paramount critiquing the screenplay for the movie version of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Sums up Hemingway’s chief concerns with the script’s political ramifications for the current war, numerous factual errors, and bad dialogue. Carroll follows up with an explication of Hemingway’s objections.
Published in
From Guernica to Human Rights: Essays on the Spanish Civil War
Date
2015
Pages
88-112
COinS
Citation
Carroll, Peter N. “Ernest Hemingway, Screenwriter: Letters About For Whom the Bell Tolls, 88-112. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2015.