A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)
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 Hemingways 1929 semiautobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick. An earlier film version, A Farewell to Arms starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.
Catherine discovers she is pregnant but after sneaking alcohol into the hospital for Frederick, the head nurse Miss Van Campen Mercedes McCambridge discovers the duplicity and separates them. She informs Fredericks superiors that he has fully recovered from his wounds and is ready for active duty. During their separation, Catherine comes to believe Frederick has abandoned her.Following the Battle of Caporetto, Frederick and his close friend Major Alessandro Rinaldi Vittorio De Sica assist the locals in fleeing the invading GermanAustrian armies. Along the forced march, several people die or are left behind due to exhaustion. When the two ambulance drivers are finally able to report to a local army base, the commandant assumes they are both deserters from the front. Rinaldi is executed by the Italian military enraged, Frederick knocks out the kerosene lamps and flees, jumping into the river. ........
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