A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Director
Charles Vidor

Main cast
Rock Hudson; Jennifer Jones; Vittorio De Sica; Luigi Barzini; Georges Brehat

Genres
Romance, Drama, War

Description
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American 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 Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick.


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