A Farewell to Arms

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A Farewell to Arms

1932,

1h 18m,

Romance

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Frederic Henry (Gary Cooper), an American driving ambulances for the Italian Army during World War I, falls for British Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes), to the displeasure of jealous commanding officer Major Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), who transfers Catherine to a different hospital out of spite. But after Frederic is injured on the battlefield, he is evacuated to Catherine's new hospital in Milan, and the star-crossed lovers begin their romance anew.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Aug 20, 2021

5/5

[A] profoundly mature Hemingway adaptation...

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Steve Rose

Guardian

May 29, 2014

4/5

A fascinatingly awkward first world war epic - dated, yet bracingly modern.

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Mark Asch

Little White Lies

May 29, 2014

4/5

Borzage effaces his leading man completely - what must Hemingway have thought? - the better to conflate passion and passivity, and you're borne right along.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

May 12, 2024

1/4

...the movie, which runs an often interminable 88 minutes, suffers from an almost total lack of an entry point that prevents the viewer from working up any interest in or sympathy for the protagonists’ dull exploits...

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Eduardo Guaitsel

Cine-Mundial

Oct 8, 2020

Gary Cooper has surpassed all theater and screen idols in this movie. [Full review in Spanish]

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Pare Lorentz

Vanity Fair

Jun 12, 2019

Helen Hayes takes the movie, wraps it up, and carries it home with her.

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Feb 1, 2019

The best romance movie ever made!

Hermione R

Jan 6, 2019

A Farewell to Arms is worth watching for its two stars Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper who are great together and for the cinematography which is strikingly sensual, but the movie's overly slow, uninteresting in many parts and simply way too melodramatic in approach, especially in that ridiculously tragic, over-the-top ending.

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Rey L

Aug 17, 2017

Both Cooper and Hayes are believable and you feel for the on-screen couple, and it has a "better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all feel," but the film for some reason still falls flat for me.

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Harry P

Jun 25, 2017

Very romantic, love story. Sad ending.

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Frank Borzage

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Helen Hayes

Catherine Barkley

Gary Cooper

Lt. Frederic Henry

Adolphe Menjou

Maj. Rinald

Mary Philips

Helen Ferguson

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Synopsis

Frederic Henry (Gary Cooper), an American driving ambulances for the Italian Army during World War I, falls for British Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes), to the displeasure of jealous commanding officer Major Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), who transfers Catherine to a different hospital out of spite. But after Frederic is injured on the battlefield, he is evacuated to Catherine's new hospital in Milan, and the star-crossed lovers begin their romance anew.

Director: Frank Borzage
Producer: Frank Borzage
Screenwriter: Benjamin Glazer, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 8, 1932, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 4, 2016
Runtime: 1h 18m

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