Director Frank Borzage infuses Ernest Hemingway’s terse style with his own lyrical romanticism in adapting the story of an ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) who begins a passionate affair with an English battlefield nurse (Helen Hayes) in WWI-ravaged Italy. Radically trimmed by Paramount after its initial release under pressure from censors, this restored version returns the bulk of the missing footage and Borzage’s intended, transcendent ending.
Production: Paramount Productions, Inc. A Frank Borzage Production. Distribution: Paramount Productions, Inc. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Screenwriter: Benjamin Glazer, Oliver H. P. Garrett. Cinematographer: Charles Lang. Art Director: Roland Anderson. Editor: Otho Lovering, George Nicholls Jr. With: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue. 35mm, b/w, 88 min.
