The Macomber Affair

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The Macomber Affair
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Zoltan Korda
Produced by	Benedict Bogeaus Casey Robinson Arthur M. Landau (associate producer)
Written by	Casey Robinson Seymour Bennett Adaptation: Seymour Bennett Frank Arnold Based on a short story by: Ernest Hemingway ("The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
Starring	Gregory Peck Joan Bennett
Music by	Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Editing by	George Feld Jack Wheeler
Studio	Benedict Bogeaus Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	1947
Running time	89 min
Country	USA
Language	English

The Macomber Affair is a 1947 psychological drama set in British East Africa concerning a fatal triangle of a frustrated wife, a weak husband, and the professional hunter who comes between them. The film was distributed by United Artists, directed by Zoltan Korda, and starring by Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett and Robert Preston. The screenplay was written by Casey Robinson and Seymour Bennett. It was adapted by Seymour Bennett and Frank Arnold, based on the short story, entitled "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", by Ernest Hemingway which in turn was inspired by an incident described by J. A. Hunter in his memoir Hunter. It has been called the finest screen adaptation of Hemingway material

[edit] Principal cast

Gregory Peck as Robert Wilson
Joan Bennett as Margaret Macomber
Robert Preston as Francis Macomber
Reginald Denny as Police Inspector
Jean Gillie as Aimee

[edit] External links

The Macomber Affair at the TCM Movie Database
The Macomber Affair at the Internet Movie Database
The Macomber Affair at AllRovi

v d e Ernest Hemingway

Novels	The Torrents of Spring (1926) The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) To Have and Have Not (1937) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Across the River and into the Trees (1950) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Islands in the Stream (1970) The Garden of Eden (1986) True at First Light (1999 memoir)

Short stories	"Big Two-Hearted River" (1925) "Indian Camp" (1925) "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925) "The Battler" (1925) "A Very Short Story" (1925) "Soldier's Home" (1925) "Cat in the Rain" (1925) "The End of Something" (1925) "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926) "A Canary for One" (1926) "Fifty Grand" (1927) "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) "The Killers" (1927) "The Undefeated" (1927) "Fathers and Sons" (1932) "A Day's Wait" (1933) "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933) "A Way You'll Never Be" (1933) "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936) "The Capital of the World" (1936) "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)

Short story collections	Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) In Our Time (1925) Men Without Women (1927) Winner Take Nothing (1933) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) The Essential Hemingway (1947) The Hemingway Reader (1953) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969) The Nick Adams Stories (1972) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987) Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

Plays	The Fifth Column (play) (1938)

Poetry	88 Poems (1979)

Non-fiction	Death in the Afternoon (1932) Green Hills of Africa (1935) Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962) A Moveable Feast (1964) By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970) Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) The Dangerous Summer (1985) Dateline: Toronto (1985) True at First Light (1999 memoir) Under Kilimanjaro (2005) On Paris (On) (2008)

Posthumous	A Moveable Feast (1964) Islands in the Stream (1970) The Nick Adams Stories (1972) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969) The Dangerous Summer (1985) The Garden of Eden (1986) The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway (1987) True at First Light (1999)

Film adaptations	A Farewell to Arms (1932) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Killers (1946) The Macomber Affair (1947) The Breaking Point (1950) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) The Killers (1956) The Sun Also Rises (1957) A Farewell to Arms (1957) The Old Man and the Sea (1958) Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) The Killers (1964) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965) Islands in the Stream (1977) The Sun Also Rises (1984) In Love and War (1996) The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

v d e Films directed by Zoltan Korda

1930s	Men of Tomorrow (1932) Cash (1933) Sanders of the River (1935) Conquest of the Air (1936) Elephant Yours (1937) The Drum (1938) The Four Feathers (1939)

1940s	Jungle Book (1942) Sahara (1943) Counter-Attack (1945) The Macomber Affair (1947) A Woman's Vengeance (1948)

1950s	Cry, the Beloved Country (1952) Storm Over the Nile (1955)

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