A farewell to arms [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox.
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FilmPublication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Screenplay by Ben Hecht ; directed by Charles Vidor.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Farewell | Available | 33111005815879 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind). Rock Hudson plays an American serving in the Italian Army during the "War to End All Wars". Jennifer Jones is his lover, a Red cross nurse. They have a torrid affair, which results in Jones' pregnancy. As the months pass, Hudson and Jones lose contact with one another, and Jones believes that Hudson has forgotten her. But a battle-weary Hudson finally makes it to Switzerland, where Jones is hospitalized. The baby is stillborn, and Jones dies shortly afterward, murmuring that her death is "a dirty trick." Filmed on a simpler scale in 1932 (with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes starring), A Farewell to Arms was blown all out of proportion to "epic" stature for the 1957 remake--so much so that its original director, John Huston, quit the film in disgust. Still, the basic love story is touchingly enacted by Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
Videodisc release of the 1957 motion picture.
Screenplay by Ben Hecht ; directed by Charles Vidor.
Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica.
Romance of an American ambulance driver wounded in World War I who falls in love with his nurse.
DVD.
Closed-captioned in English or Spanish with optional French and Spanish audio.