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Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1957 DVD Release: 05/24/2005 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 32 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 2 Genres: War, Melodrama, War Drama, War Romance See Also: A Farewell to Arms [Cliff Notes Edition]

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

Rock Hudson - Lt. Frederick Henry
Jennifer Jones - Nurse Catherine Barkley
Vittorio De Sica - Maj. Alessandro Rinaldi
Alberto Sordi - Father Galli
Kurt Kasznar - Bonello
Mercedes McCambridge - Miss Van Campen