A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick. This film version, A Farewell to Arms starred Rock Hudson as Frederick Henry, Jennifer Jones as Catherine Barkley, Vittorio De Sica as Major Alessandro Rinaldi, etc. So, now let’s see what this film is about.
Henry, an American officer, who served in Italy during World War I, fell in love with a British nurse Catherine. When he was wounded in the knee and got to the hospital, their relationships developed. Then, being on the front again, Henry killed an engineering sergeant for insubordination. After that, he was caught by the "battle police", who executed officers for the "treachery", but he managed to escape. Together with Catherine they went to Switzerland, where she gave birth to a dead child and then died herself.
As for the acting, I should say that all the actors were great. They got used to the war and performed their characters very vividly. It made me watch this film with great interest since Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones looked exactly like I imagined Henry and his beloved (especially J. Jones, who in her part of Catherine was as irritating and too sweet as the protagonist in the book).
Directing was also on high. There were no unnecessary episodes in the film. Every scene was important for the whole perception of the development of relationships between Henry and Catherine.
To crown it all, I’d like to underline that this film impressed me greatly. It really made me think of love which was born during the war, whether it was true feeling or just a temporary love affair. So, this story gives us a real example of difficult relationships between man and woman in unusual circumstances.
Henry, an American officer, who served in Italy during World War I, fell in love with a British nurse Catherine. When he was wounded in the knee and got to the hospital, their relationships developed. Then, being on the front again, Henry killed an engineering sergeant for insubordination. After that, he was caught by the "battle police", who executed officers for the "treachery", but he managed to escape. Together with Catherine they went to Switzerland, where she gave birth to a dead child and then died herself.
As for the acting, I should say that all the actors were great. They got used to the war and performed their characters very vividly. It made me watch this film with great interest since Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones looked exactly like I imagined Henry and his beloved (especially J. Jones, who in her part of Catherine was as irritating and too sweet as the protagonist in the book).
Directing was also on high. There were no unnecessary episodes in the film. Every scene was important for the whole perception of the development of relationships between Henry and Catherine.
To crown it all, I’d like to underline that this film impressed me greatly. It really made me think of love which was born during the war, whether it was true feeling or just a temporary love affair. So, this story gives us a real example of difficult relationships between man and woman in unusual circumstances.
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