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A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Name: A Farewell to Arms
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1957-12-14
Duration: 2 h 32 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oskar Homolka

Approved | 152 min | Drama, Romance, War

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

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Rock Hudson

Lt. Frederick Henry
Jennifer Jones

Catherine Barkley
Vittorio De Sica

Major Alessandro Rinaldi
Oskar Homolka

Dr. Emerich

(as Oscar Homolka)
Mercedes McCambridge

Miss Van Campen
Elaine Stritch

Helen Ferguson
Kurt Kasznar

Bonello
Victor Francen

Colonel Valentini
Franco Interlenghi

Aymo
Leopoldo Trieste

Passini
José Nieto

Major Stampi

(as Jose Nieto)
Georges Bréhat

Captain Bassi

(as Georges Brehat)
Johanna Hofer

Mrs. Zimmerman
Eduard Linkers

Lieutenant Zimmerman
Eva Kotthaus

Delivery Room Nurse

Directors:

Charles Vidor , John Huston

Writers:

Ben Hecht (screenplay), Ernest Hemingway (novel), Laurence Stallings (play)

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Last film of production designer Alfred Junge

In the café while Catherine is in hospital, Frederick is shown placing the sugar cubes on the table, with three already there and his hand moving to place there the fourth one. Camera cuts to a different angle and there are suddenly five sugar cubes on the table. Later in the same scene, after he flattens the sugar cubes with his hand, the position of his hand (and sugar cubes) changes instantly and he's holding one sugar cube that he wasn't holding a split second before.

Crazy Credits

Producer David O. Selznick tries to imitate the opening credits of his classic film, "Gone With The Wind", by having the letters of the title "A Farewell to Arms" sweep slowly across the screen from right to left.