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A Farewell to Arms

One of the great love stories of all time!

1957 · 2h 32m · APPROVED Drama, Romance, War
Directed by Charles Vidor

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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.

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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.

Philip Roth, The New Republic
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Sweep and frankness alone don't make a great picture; and Farewell suffers from an overdose of both.

Variety Staff, Variety
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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.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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The exaggerated production values overrun everything, including director Charles Vidor, who hardly seems to know which way to turn.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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What Hemingway wrote as an interlude of amorous flutes and distant drums, Producer David 0. Selznick has scored for brass.

TIME Magazine

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