A Farewell to Arms

Helen Hayes is a World War I nurse who falls for wounded soldier Gary Cooper. The war, and Adolphe Menjou, threaten to come between them.This film features some startling, indelible images. The acting is also first rate. Mr. Cooper and... Full review

There's World War I going and Lieutenant Frederick Henry is fighting for his life.The war becomes secondary when he meets and falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley.Having big emotions for another person during the war is dangerous since there's... Full review

This film is certainly not a great of the cinema, yet it is a fine, rewarding Hemingway adaptation that will stay in the mind for some time.For me, Cooper seemed to suggest Hemingway's protagonists better than any other actor. He... Full review

When this version of A Farewell to Arms came out, Ernest Hemingway hated this film. They turned his novel and put too much emphasis on the romance angle. When Papa Hemingway said that he obviously did not know Hollywood well... Full review

This is why we have great films. Gary Cooper is at his best here and he shines very well. A fine masterpiece. Great supporting cast helps a lot. Great directing and a great script that works very well. A fine cinematograpic... Full review

This is why we have great films. Gary Cooper is at his best here and he shines very well. A fine masterpiece. Great supporting cast helps a lot. Great directing and a great script that works very well. A fine cinematograpic... Full review

The works of Ernest Hemingway have not always translated well to the cinema. The Gary Cooper/Ingrid Bergman "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and David O. Selznick's version of "A Farewell to Arms", although attractively photographed, are two of the dullest... Full review

The 1932 film version of Ernest Hemmingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS will never challenge the likes of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT--but while it fails to capture the horrors of World War I it is remarkably effective at capturing... Full review

OK, Helen Hayes radiates and Gary Cooper looks dazed and bedraggled. Lang's cinematography is indeed lovely, and the direction takes on a Casablanca-like atmosphere. However, I had serious issues with the editing and the speed of the script -- barely any... Full review

Frank Borzage's expressionist direction is what made it for me! Very disturbing scenes and an altogether wonderful use of the camera, some scenes techniques are real jawdroppers. Too bad it often has to rely on the sappy love story and the... Full review

A Farewell to Arms is definitely his best novel, but its mannered ellipses sometimes read like a straight-faced parody of the admirable stoicism the author was aiming at. Catherine loses her virginity to Frederic in a churchyard under the stars, and Borzage melds the sacred and the profane, joining them because they belong together, his contrasts colliding and merging and obliterating all petty, needling consciousness. ... Full Review

The highlight of the film is a wordless one:....The melodramatic ending bothered me a bit, but it's....There are great individual scenes....Adolphe Menjou is a delight as Rinaldi....This early adaptation of it, a prestige picture that was nominated for four Oscars, is an acceptable adaptation..... ... Full Review

MEET JOHN DOE (1941) / A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932) is a double-feature of two of Gary Cooper's most famous movies, released by Marengo Films: MEET JOHN DOE is Frank Capra's darkly comic satire. ... Full Article

This first film version of Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms stars Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Cooper plays Lt. Frederick Henry, a World War I officer who falls in love with English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Hayes)-after... ... Full Article