The Snows of Kilimanjaro

In the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro, a wounded writer (Gregory Peck) deliriously reflects on his past loves & adventures in Paris, the French Riviera and Spain during the Spanish Civil War. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a melodramatic drama/romance/adventure, an assemblage of several unrelated Hemingway stories, including the title one, as well as his nonfiction book Death in the Afternoon (1932). Gregory Peck is "Harry Street", a successful writer confined to bed on an African hunting trip after an accident. Drifting in and out of lucidity, he reflects on his life and loves. Much of his recollection focusses on "Cynthia" (Ava Gardner), the woman he loved but lost to his determination to be a successful author and to the Spanish Civil War. The story is an amalgam of two Hemingway stories that knit together n...