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| A Farewell to Arms | 
 enlarge | Directors: Charles Vidor, John Huston
Actors: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oskar Homolka, Mercedes Mccambridge
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 21149
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 152
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2227288D
UPC: 024543172871
EAN: 0024543172871
ASIN: B0007PALN4
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1957
Release Date: May 24, 2005
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Product Description
World war i. The italian front. An american army volunteer meets a british nurse on the eve of the big offensive in the alps & they fall passionately in love. Torn apart then reunited they escape to switzerland to await the birth of their child & the tragic conclusion of their once-in-a-lifetime romance. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 04/30/2008 Starring: Rock Hudson Jennifer Jones Run time: 152 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Rochie August 12, 2007
A fine WW1 romantic drama of Hemingway's novel. Sincere performance from Rock Hudson as American officer in the crumbling Italian Army. Film a tad dated yet strangely p.c. and modern regarding Jennifer Jones' unwed mum-to-be. Worth watching.
 A Farewell to Arms July 25, 2007
It is an excellent movie. I've always enjoyed it from the day it was released.
 Oh my................... June 16, 2007
Already in the beginning you get the sense that this is a turkey. Selznick even repeats the same type of openingcredits as he did in GONE WITH THE WIND....
In the beginning, Jennifer Jones in particular is painfully amateurish but she is never helped by a wooden dialogue and screenplay...No one in this film is....
Even my mama at the age of 71 declared; "what a 50s film".... She has never uttered such phrases, but it is impossible not to agree...
Never for a moment do you leave the feeling that this a a movieset and even the musical score screams plagiate... in the beginning that is...
A shame really... The looks of Rock Hudson and the Elaine Stritch/Mercedes MacCambridge duo is the only thing worth watching with some of the scenary...
But THAT is only the beginning... midthrough "soemthing" happens at the characters and the film comes alive...
Miss Barkley is a clinging woman because of bad experience and I musy say that the dialogue and childbirth wasn`t common place in the movies in 1957.
The last half is good, but the overall impression is uneven...
updated on Monday,June 18 2007.
An Uneven Movie But Worth Watching April 10, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw this film years ago and was curious to see if it is still worth seeing after 50 years. The movie is beautifully filmed; the panoramic views are spectacular. The evacuation of the Italian Army is extremely well done. Rock Hudson as Lt. Frederick Henry, an American ambulance driver in World War I, proves that he can act in addition to being extremely handsome. He is by far the best thing about the movie. Jennifer Jones does not fair as well. One suspects that she may have gotten the part of Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, because she was married to the producer David O. Selznick of GONE WITH THE WIND fame. She says "darling" way, way too many times. Then there are the 50's censors to deal with. Catherine would never say she was "pregnant," but rather is going to have a baby. Had she not informed us of that, we couldn't have been sure that she and Henry actually went to bed together as she's always buttoned up to her neck in her nurse's uniform although Mr. Hudson does take his shirt off from time to time.
I'm not sure how much of this story is really Hemingway's as the movie gets a bit preachy in the end. Henry keeps talking about that he has been bad. I do not know what he has done that is so wrong. Certainly fleeing from a military court martial where he would have certainly been shot is not a bad thing to have done.
The DVD version has some black and white footage of the premiere of the movie, along with a clip of PHOTOPLAY awards connected with it-- certainly interesting from a historical standpoint.
This is a story that is ripe for a remake. Hemingway's love story is worth repeating.
 Lavish and entertaining but unmoving remake February 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The 1957 version of A Farewell to Arms is a mixture of the best and worst of David O. Selznick. On the plus side is the no expense spared lavishness of the whole production, with great Italian locations, great production design, a good supporting cast (including an excellent Vittorio de Sica, Alberto Sordi and Elaine Stritch) and a cast of thousands. On the debit side, there's some hokey love scenes and the miscasting of Selznick's private leading lady Jennifer Jones, lisping her way through an awkward British accent while seemingly impersonating a rather large bunny rabbit that somehow got a job as a nurse.
Charles Vidor lacks Frank Borzage's sensual romanticism, but despite some surprisingly clumsy comedy, Ben Hecht's script is much darker and more mature than you'd expect, with the grim retreat sequences and their aftermath far darker than anything in the Gary Cooper version. That said, the gay subtext to Rinaldi's friendship is almost completely absent, something that seems all the more noticeable with Rock Hudson playing the object of his affections (but that's hindsight for you). It's never particularly moving, but it's entertaining storytelling and it looks great in its original CinemaScope ratio.
Extras are limited to the original trailer and brief newsreel extracts.
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