A Farewell to Arms

1957
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2h 32m

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5.8/10

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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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Romantic Epic Drama Romance War

An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
Rock Hudson turned down The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Sayonara (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959) in order to make this film. He later said this was the biggest mistake of his career.

Goofs
The British nurses at the hospital all have American accents.

Quotes
Major Alessandro Rinaldi: She's very strange, very moody, who knows she might even prefer you to me.

Crazy credits
Producer David O. Selznick tries to imitate the opening credits of his classic film, "Gone With The Wind", by having the letters of the title "A Farewell to Arms" sweep slowly across the screen from right to left.

Connections
Featured in The Time Tunnel: The Ghost of Nero (1967)

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Hemingway strikes out again!!!

Strange that one of America's favorite writers has no success in having his novels transferred to the screen with any fidelity or improvement over the original. 'A Farewell to Arms' is a lumbering, turgid, over-stuffed movie that never seems real. Chemistry between Hudson and Jones is simply not there--Jennifer Jones, in particular, seems remote and detached as the nurse even when she's supposed to be wildly in love. And then there's the matter of length--it seems to go on forever with a very weak resolution.

David O. Selznick wanted to create something that would rank alongside his 'Gone with the Wind' as an epic romance with a war background--but the talky script defeated everyone. Hemingway himself publicly disowned the movie, claiming that Jones was far too old for the part and unhappy about the film in general. At any rate, it was not the hoped for success and did nothing to halt the decline of Selznick's career--or Jennifer Jones' career for that matter. A big disappointment.