Perhaps what is most irritating about the film is that too many times an exciting scene of Hemingway's is shucked out in favor of a distressingly inferior one invented (if I may indulge the Muse a moment) by Ben Hecht, who is responsible for the script.
A Farewell to Arms
One of the great love stories of all time!
1957 · 2h 32m · APPROVED
Drama, Romance, War
Directed by
Charles Vidor
Overview
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
Director and cast
- Charles Vidor Director
- Rock Hudson as Lieutenant Frédéric Henry
- Jennifer Jones as Catherine Barkley
- Vittorio De Sica as Major Rinaldi
- Luigi Barzini as le colonel de la cour martiale
- Georges Brehat as Capitaine Bassi
- Oskar Homolka as Dr Emerich
- Mercedes McCambridge as Mme Van Campen
- Elaine Stritch as Helen Ferguson
- Kurt Kasznar as Bonello
- Victor Francen as Colonel Valentini
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Sweep and frankness alone don't make a great picture; and Farewell suffers from an overdose of both.
This film, for all its size and color, doesn't do much more by Hemingway's book than was done by the sentimental version of it played by Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper some twenty-five years ago.
The exaggerated production values overrun everything, including director Charles Vidor, who hardly seems to know which way to turn.
What Hemingway wrote as an interlude of amorous flutes and distant drums, Producer David 0. Selznick has scored for brass.
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