A Farewell to Arms | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Perhaps what is most irritating about the film is that too many times an exciting scene of Hemingway's is shucked out in favor of a distressingly inferior one invented (if I may indulge the Muse a moment) by Ben Hecht, who is responsible for the script.

Selznick's last film as producer is a vastly disappointing remake of the superior 1932 version of Hemingway's novel, a sentimental, overblown production with stiff performances from Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones.

Sweep and frankness alone don't make a great picture; and Farewell suffers from an overdose of both.

This film, for all its size and color, doesn't do much more by Hemingway's book than was done by the sentimental version of it played by Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper some twenty-five years ago.

A padded Ben Hecht script and Selznick's invariable tendency to overkill are equally to blame.