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After waiting thirty years,Heming-way’s first, best, and most famous novel, The Sun Also Rises, has finally been made into a movie. Much of it was filmed in Spain (one of the most photogenic countries in the world), and two other especially lovely scenes were made on the beach at Biarritz and from the steps of the Sacre Coeur looking out over Paris at daybreak. These backgrounds alone would make it worth seeing.

Further, it introduces (as the bullfighter) a young actor named Robert Evans who ought to be a star in his own right very shortly; it gives, of all people, Errol Flynn a chance to prove that he can be more than a weary swashbuckler; and it enables Juliette Greco to tease the cliché role of a Parisian streetwalker with a subtle charm and contempt that rarely get on film.

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After waiting thirty years,Heming-way’s first, best, and most famous novel, The Sun Also Rises, has finally been made into a movie. Much of it was filmed in Spain (one of the most photogenic countries in the world), and two other especially lovely scenes were made on the beach at Biarritz and from the steps of the Sacre Coeur looking out over Paris at daybreak. These backgrounds alone would make it worth seeing.

Further, it introduces (as the bullfighter) a young actor named Robert Evans who ought to be a star in his own right very shortly; it gives, of all people, Errol Flynn a chance to prove that he can be more than a weary swashbuckler; and it enables Juliette Greco to tease the cliché role of a Parisian streetwalker with a subtle charm and contempt that rarely get on film.