A Farewell to Arms
by Frank Borzage
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Actor: Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Jack La Rue, Mary PhilipsDirector: Frank Borzage
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Charles Lang
Producer: Benjamin Glazer
Writer: Benjamin Glazer
Producer: Edward A. Blatt
Writer: Ernest Hemingway
Writer: Laurence Stallings
Writer: Oliver H.P. Garrett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of A Farewell to Arms
Movie Review: Love found - love lost - love found - love never lost
Summary: 4 Stars
A Frank Borzage production that is based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway, this is a story of the love between ambulance driver Lieutenant Henry (Gary Cooper) and Nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes) during World War I. the story is made complex by the interference of Major Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou.)
"Disaster as well as victory is written for every nation on the record of the World Ware, but high on the rolls of glory two names are inscribed -- --
The Marne and the Piave."
This is a real tearjerker in black and white. However, it is well made and the story keeps movie. We can even feel sorry for the misguided friendship of Major Rinaldi, which contributed greatly to the disaster in the story.
I was really struck by seeing the young Helen Hayes as the first time I saw her was on Airport (1970.)
The Fountainhead ~ Gary Cooper
Summary of A Farewell to Arms
An American soldier and an English nurse share an ill-fated romance in World War I. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticizing of the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian front in World War I, an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes, before she became the official First Lady of the American The-a-tah). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt approach. Image Entertainment's DVD release is a stunningly gorgeous improvement on the muddy prints of this film that had been circulating for years, a fitting tribute to the Oscar-winning cinematography of ace cameraman Charles Lang (this is the kind of lush black and white that can capture the glow from a cigarette as it plays across Cooper's darkened face--a breathtaking touch). The jaded battle scenes show the influence of the hit film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, especially in a gripping montage depicting Cooper's progress alone through the war zone. Hemingway would have none of it, of course; he once disdainfully wrote that "in the first picture version Lt. Henry deserted because he didn't get any mail and then the whole Italian Army went along, it seems, to keep him company." This is first and foremost a love story, however, and as such it succeeds beautifully, right through to the remarkably intense ending. --Robert Horton
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