The Sun Also Rises (1957)

Jake Barnes: Everyone behaves badly given the proper chance.

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Lady Brett Ashley: Do you always kill your friends?
Pedro Romero: Yes, so they do not kill me.

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Jake Barnes: [Answering Robert's questions about Lady Brett Ashley] Well, let me give you the facts. She's a drunk and a drifter. She's gonna marry a guy named Mike Campbell. That way she'll have a rich, sodden old age.
Robert Cohn: I don't believe it!
Jake Barnes: Don't ask a lot of fool questions if you don't like the answers.
Robert Cohn: Well, I didn't ask you for a rundown on her private life.
Jake Barnes: You asked me what I knew about her.
Robert Cohn: I didn't ask you to insult her.
Jake Barnes: Oh, go to Hell!
Robert Cohn: Take that back!
Jake Barnes: Cut out the prep school stuff, Robert!
Robert Cohn: Take it back!
Jake Barnes: Sure, sure. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that?
Robert Cohn: No, not that! About me going to Hell!
Jake Barnes: Don't go to Hell! Go back in the Select if that's what you want!
Robert Cohn: All right, I will!

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Howard Hawks was the first to option the film rights in the early 1950s and proposed Ann Harding, Montgomery Clift and Margaret Sheridan as the stars. He eventually sold the rights to Darryl F. Zanuck.
José Trinidad Villa, son of the infamous Pancho Villa, was Errol Flynn's stand-in.
The film received poor reviews due to the slow pace and the fact that all the stars were much older than the characters they played.
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