The Macomber Affair The Macomber Affair The Macomber Affair is a 1947 movie set in British East Africa concerning a fatal triangle involving a frustrated wife, a weak husband, and the professional hunter who comes between them. The film was distributed by United Artists and directed by Zoltan Korda, and features Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston. The screenplay was written by Casey Robinson and Seymour Bennett and adapted by Bennett and Frank Arnold, based on "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", the 1936 Ernest Hemingway short story. The film was rereleased in 1952 by Lippert Pictures as The Great White
Farewell to the mountains religion and divine providence, that is The Betrothed's "fil rouge" (the author writes that God disturbs his sons' joy to donate them, at the end, a bigger joy). Farewell to the mountains Farewell to the mountains or, in Italian, , is a famous passage of the VIII chapter of "The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni. Lucia and Renzo are escaping from their native village by barge because don Rodrigo wants to force the young woman to marry him; Lucia sees the place where she used to live and the suitor's castle, so she grieves and begins to cry. Manzoni reports Lucia's