Fishing
Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
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The Old Man and the Sea | 1958 | Adventure | After 84 days without a catch, a Cuban fisherman (Spencer Tracy) lands a marlin. |
Man's Favorite Sport? | 1964 | Comedy | A phony fishing expert (Rock Hudson) ends up entered in a big tournament. |
A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Drama | Story of Montana brothers hooked on fly-fishing, directed by Robert Redford. |
Gone Fishin' | 1997 | Comedy | Inept anglers Joe Pesci and Danny Glover have an adventure in the Everglades. |
The Perfect Storm | 2000 | Drama | Professional fishermen from Gloucester, Massachusetts get caught in storm of the century. |
The Lost World of Mr. Hardy | 2008 | Documentary | U.K. film about a family firm that manufactures fishing tackle. |
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | 2011 | Comedy | A Brit (Ewan McGregor) helps a sheikh introduce salmon fishing to his country. |
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Famous quotes containing the word fishing:
“The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommended it to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Once fishing was a rabbits foot
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)