I would also like to hear more about the film, having imprinted on the book when I was young! I've been eyeing the film for some while now, but I hear there are some Significant Plot Changes of which I am wary...
I have not read the novel in ages beyond the chapter excerpted in Andrew Lyett's Kipling and the Sea (2014), but the plot changes are significant enough to me that if you watched the film, it would probably work best to consider it more in the category of "inspired by" than "adapted from." All of the quotidian details of fishing off the Grand Banks are wonderful and include some location shooting in Massachusetts and the Maritimes. Spencer Tracy admitted at the time that he couldn't do accents and completely faked his way through being Portuguese, for which he won a very surprised Oscar.
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I have not read the novel in ages beyond the chapter excerpted in Andrew Lyett's Kipling and the Sea (2014), but the plot changes are significant enough to me that if you watched the film, it would probably work best to consider it more in the category of "inspired by" than "adapted from." All of the quotidian details of fishing off the Grand Banks are wonderful and include some location shooting in Massachusetts and the Maritimes. Spencer Tracy admitted at the time that he couldn't do accents and completely faked his way through being Portuguese, for which he won a very surprised Oscar.