Farewell to arms movie review. DVD Review: A Farewell to Arms 2019-01-27
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A Farewell To Arms
The scene where the priest remains in the burning hospital which by the way was not in the book was, in my opinion, the best scene of the movie. De Sica garnered an Oscar nomination for his supporting performance. This is a much better pick as a romance movie than a war movie, though I doubt this will be at the top of your watchlist since it's kind of old. I read the book about a week before watching the movie niether by choice so I had a pretty good idea of where and how each was different. Hudson both do a very convincing job.
David Selznick micro managed his productions and fired John Huston whom he felt was titling the picture towards a war film versus a highly romantic film, i. Yes, Helen Hayes was definitely miscast in this weird role for her, but she still delivered a strong performance for sure. The love scenes are about as affecting as a coffee commercial. His once golden touch was gone and this film was his last--and his last attempt to promote Jones. It is hardly surprising that it was not a success and that its failure ended Selznick's career as a producer.
The show of devotion between two people is intensely acted, not realized. I slogged all the way through this version for only one reason -- I admire the work of David O. Hecht, the screenwriter, is a hack. The play ran for 30 performances in 1930 and starred Glenn Anders and Elissa Landi on Broadway. The camera work is quite intimate.
It was Hemingway that insisted on Cooper being cast in For Whom the Bell Tolls. And, as the military commander alluded to in the feature film, it was done by the Italians on their own as virtually all of the American troops went to France to help the beleaguered French and British against the desperate German offensives of 1918. Selznick, had a very publicized affair with a young actress, Jennifer Jones. The direction is fine, and the music is beautiful and cleverly composed. This movie has everything a good movie needs! But production values are very high, and the cinematography is wonderful.
What is now obvious to me is that 1 the part I saw had little input from Jennifer Jones; 2 the emotion conveyed by Rock Hudson was deeply touching; 3 the setting was also memorable; 4 it was far too long. Hudson is an American who has volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Italians. Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel, A Farewell to Arms tells the love story between an American ambulance driver and an English nurse in Italy, during World War I. In the book, Henry says that The Western front, though, was beginning to crack. Their was plenty of opportunity for action. If you're Adolph Zukor for Paramount or David O.
David Selznick's 'A Farewell to Arms'; Hemingway Story Is New Film at Roxy Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones Are Starred
While recovering from a wound in a British base in northern , he is cared for by Catherine Barkley , a nurse he had met earlier, near the front, and they engage in an affair. His feet are up and his hat is down. On World War I's Italian front there were two battles after Caporetto, and both were Italian victories. In Vienna for background filming on Columbia's Song Without End, Charles Vidor suffered a sudden and fatal heart attack in his hotel room on the night of 4 June 1959. Two days before shooting was due to commence on the David O. . However, in the pace the film was very pedestrian, but the pace wasn't the only dull thing about it.
It was the last film produced by. But the chemistry between Hudson and Jones is both turgid and dull. Delineation is adequate, tested in full during evening encounters. Overall, colors are subtle and muted, though balanced in accordance with the DeLuxe color processing employed at this time. The original film starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.
Rock Hudson is far too shallow to make a go at the over-the-top emotionalism this story needs. The acting from the lead roles felt pretty weak. The other problem with the television broadcast of this film is that the movie is badly in need of restoration. Jennifer Jones portrayal didn't have any more coherence than the static text and felt almost pathetically unrealistic. There's not much to recommend this film sonically. One thing also to remember that we're not even starting out with pure Hemingway to begin with. You might want to tune in for some of the scenery at the end but it's really not worth it.
The Germans were hoping for an Austrian triumph to knock out the Italians, but their offensive failed. He is not helped, either, by the playing. A film producer or director has to tell a story in a very different way than does an author. There were a number of beautiful young British actresses in Hollywood around this time, such as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Simmons and Joan Collins, any of whom might have been more convincing in the role, but Miss Jones had one important attribute they all lacked, namely a marriage certificate with David O. The 1957 version of Hemingway's great romantic novel is, like The Sun Also Rises, another adaptation of one of Papa's masterpieces, pretty to look at, expensively made, and wooden in all other respects. But Selznick fired Huston and replaced him with Charles Vidor because allegedly too much attention was paid to Rock Hudson and not enough to Jennifer.
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