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Director:
Writers:
Ben Hecht (screenplay)
Ernest Hemingway (novel)
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Release Date:
14 December 1957 (USA) more
Plot:
The story of an affair between an English nurse an an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
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Total crap adaptation more (18 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rock Hudson | ... | Lt. Frederick Henry | |
| Jennifer Jones | ... | Catherine Barkley | |
| Vittorio De Sica | ... | Major Alessandro Rinaldi | |
| Oskar Homolka | ... | Dr. Emerich (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Mercedes McCambridge | ... | Miss Van Campen | |
| Elaine Stritch | ... | Helen Ferguson | |
| Kurt Kasznar | ... | Bonello | |
| Victor Francen | ... | Colonel Valentini | |
| Franco Interlenghi | ... | Aymo | |
| Leopoldo Trieste | ... | Passini | |
| José Nieto | ... | Major Stampi (as Jose Nieto) | |
| Georges Bréhat | ... | Captain Bassi (as Georges Brehat) | |
| Johanna Hofer | ... | Mrs. Zimmerman | |
| Eduard Linkers | ... | Lieutenant Zimmerman | |
| Eva Kotthaus | ... | Delivery Room Nurse |
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152 min | Italy:141 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)
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Argentina:Atp | Iceland:12 | West Germany:16 (f) | USA:Approved (certificate #18795) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Australia:G | France:U | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1988) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video re-rating) (2005)
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The film's original director, John Huston, was fired after clashing with producer David O. Selznick. Cinematographer Oswald Morris quit after Selznick claimed Rock Hudson was being favored over his wife, Jennifer Jones. more
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Continuity: In the café while Catherine is in hospital, Frederick is shown placing the sugar cubes on the table, with three already there and his hand moving to place there the fourth one. Camera cuts to a different angle and there are suddenly five sugar cubes on the table. Later in the same scene, after he flattens the sugar cubes with his hand, the position of his hand (and sugar cubes) changes instantly and he's holding one sugar cube that he wasn't holding a split second before. more
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Featured in Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992) more
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| Inside Joke? | mdudnikov |
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| Like the novel? | la_mnk |
| Notes on A FAREWELL TO ARMS | JSlack3 |
| Most faithful adaptation? | HollyAF3 |
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This film should be called adventures in Cinemascope. It is like the screenwriter and director tooks the Cliff's Notes page 3 outline and decided that this would be a great vehicle for a film about the Italian Alps. Rock Hudson is pretty good here, but the dialogue bears no resemblance to Hemingway at all. This is a made up version of Hemingway. Hecht, the screenwriter, is a hack. Watch the 1932 version with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. That is great cinema and was made by someone who understood Hemingway and the war in Northern Italy. Gary Cooper is very, very good compared to his performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls where he is stiff as a board and thinks he is in a western.
Anyway, if you are a Hemingway fan, do yourself a favor and do not watch this film. Your best bet is to get the unabridged audio CD and just listen to one of the greatest novels ever written.