Genre:
War
Release Date: 05/24/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DD3.0/DD1
Run Time: 152 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
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, All Movie Guide
;)
