'Across the River and Into the Trees' trivia and fun facts
The dream movie
For years, this movie had been a dream project for several high-profile actors and directors. John Huston tried to stage it several times, and Burt Lancaster desperately wanted to play the aging military colonel. Even at one point, Robert Altman was on the verge of achieving it with Roy Scheider, Julie Christie and Greta Scacchi as main characters, but the low financing ended up not making it possible at the last moment.
Hemingway's worst novel
Howard Hawks joked early in Ernest Hemingway's career that he adapted Hemingway's worst novel into a film to make it better, which was "To Have and Have Nots," starred by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Years later, 'Across the river and into the trees' has occupied the place of Hemingway's worst book according to critics and fans. It has come to receive multiple horrible reviews and very low sales, but he quickly fixed his career with the novel 'The Old Man and the Sea', which also tells the story of an old man who has flashbacks about his youth and rediscovers his strengths, with some action instead of romantic drama.