I really feel that this movie was trying to say something meaningful - I just couldn't hear it. It'll be a long while before I try it again.

Peck is very good (one of his best performances). Have no idea though why Hayward was billed higher when Ava's was by far the meatier role. Anyway, they might as well have fashioned an original feature out of this, for all the bearing it has on Hemingway's story. The static flashback structure proves a sizeable demerit, and the tacked-on, hooray-for-Hollywood ending deprives both the title and the leopard-carcass fable of much of their point.