This week on “Picture Perfect,” as I continue to cultivate my Corona beard, we’ll get in touch with our masculine side, with music from movies inspired by the writings of Ernest Hemingway.

Seemingly at odds with Hemingway’s minimalist, “iceberg” style, big screen adaptations of the writer’s work show what the stories don’t tell. In the case of “The Killers” (1946), the screenwriters, unapologetically, just made stuff up, an entire back story explaining the motivations for the hit of boxer “Swede” Anderson. Fortunately, those screenwriters happened to include an uncredited John Huston, who virtually codified noir with “The Maltese Falcon.”

“The Killers” provided Burt Lancaster with his break-out role. It also features a knock-out score by Miklós Rózsa, in which he uses the dum-dee-dum-dum motto later made famous by the television series “Dragnet.”

George C. Scott reunited with his “Patton” director, Franklin J. Schaffner, for an adaptation of Hemingway’s posthumously published novel, “Islands in the Stream” (1977). Scott gives one of his best performances as a Hemingway-like figure living on a Caribbean island. “Patton” composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote the music. Goldsmith spoke of it often as his favorite score.

Hemingway himself handpicked the leads for “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1943), with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman falling in love against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. The music was written by the prolific and versatile Victor Young.

Finally, Spencer Tracy is the whole show, as he faces off against a large marlin, in the “The Old Man and the Sea” (1958). Dimitri Tiomkin’s music earned him his fourth Academy Award.

I hope you’ll join me for an hour of laconic grace and stoic manliness on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies. Everyone, come to Papa, this Friday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner – infinitely more attractive than my Corona beard