Not horrible, but if you really want to know this story, don't bother with the movie at all. Go out and read the book.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:10
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Ernest Hemingway's 1939 novel, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, stands among the great pieces of American literature. Sam Wood's direction of the script by Dudley Nichols stars Gary Cooper as Hemingway's... Ernest Hemingway's 1939 novel, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, stands among the great pieces of American literature. Sam Wood's direction of the script by Dudley Nichols stars Gary Cooper as Hemingway's pain-ridden, love-torn hero, Robert Jordan, a Montana schoolteacher who risks his life to fight Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War. Jordan joins a group of Spanish guerrilla fighters whose mission is to blow up a bridge behind enemy lines. Ingrid Bergman plays Maria, a beautiful Spanish refugee who has been rendered mute by the trauma of a rape. Over the course of four days, Maria and Jordan fall head over heels in love, a plotline that subsumes the fighting and the war itself. Still, it is Katina Paxinou as Pilar, the hen mother of the guerrilla troop, who steals the show in her Oscar-winning performance. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS is not to be missed by any Hemingway fan. [More]
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Artur De Cordova
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Artur De Cordova, Joseph Calleia, Katina Paxinou, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Victor Varconi, Alexander Granach
Director: Sam Wood
Director: Sam Wood
Screenwriter: Dudley Nichols
Story: Ernest Hemingway
Producer: Sam Wood
Composer: Victor Young
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Reviews for For Whom the Bell Tolls
Though diffuse and overlong, the star performances of Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper (Hemingway wrote the novel with Coop in mind) are appealing, even if the politics and heroics are remain vague.
Ingrid Bergman in an unusual role as an enabler to stoic Cooper during the Spanish Civil War.
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