Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Dec 8, 1932 Wide
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This first film version of Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms stars Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Cooper plays Lt. Frederick Henry, a World War I officer who falls in love with English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Hayes)-after first mistaking her for a woman of ill repute. Henry's friend, Major Rinaldi, is envious of the romance, and pulls strings to have Catherine transferred to Milan. When Henry is wounded in battle, he ends up in the very hospital where Catherine works. They
Dec 8, 1932 Wide
Jun 12, 1998
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Tissue-thin as these things go, Kino's wafer of a Blu-ray production earns its keep with a fine transfer of a Borzage barnburner.
Noted by many as the best film version of a Hemingway novel.
The first Hemingway novel made into a Hollywood film is also one of the better ones due to Gary Cooper's star turn and Borzage's stylized helming, even if a happy ending was imposed against the author's wishes and protests.
Cooper and Hays bring Borzage's liking for towering, vulnerable men and tiny, tough women to its visual apotheosis (her head barely reaches his armpit when they walk).
It's not as good as the book, but it succeeds in its own right, which is really all I ask of adaptations.
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Very long and very melodramatic! Good actors and a realistic story, but it was too melodramatic for my taste.
September 3, 2010Super Reviewer
Creaky antique with mismatched stars is interesting in how much more openly the couples sexual relationship is portrayed than it would have been just a few years later when the production code had gone into effect. Otherwise it isn't anything to go out of your way to watch.
March 31, 2008
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