Amazon.co.uk: A Farewell to Arms [1932] (NTSC): Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue, Blanche Friderici, Mary Forbes, Gilbert Emery, Henry Armetta, Alice Adair, Robert Cauterio, Doris Lloyd, Gino Corrado, Herman Bing, George Humbert, Frank Borzage: DVD

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A Farewell to Arms [1932] (NTSC)
DVD ~ Helen Hayes

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Actors: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue
Directors: Frank Borzage
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Language English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 22 Jun 1999
Run Time: 89 minutes

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ASIN: B00000ILEO

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Amazon.co.uk Review
The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticising of the book, however, this film offers its own glossy appeal. On the Italian front in World War I an American ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) falls in love with a nurse (Helen Hayes). Cooper was a Hemingway friend in real life, and later played the hero of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; his boyish simplicity is just right for director Frank Borzage's heartfelt approach. The Oscar-winning cinematography of ace cameraman Charles Lang is the kind of lush black and white that can capture the glow from a cigarette as it plays across Cooper's darkened face--a breathtaking touch. The jaded battle scenes show the influence of the hit film version of All Quiet on the Western Front, especially in a gripping montage depicting Cooper's progress alone through the war zone. Hemingway would have none of it, of course; he once disdainfully wrote that "in the first picture version Lt. Henry deserted because he didn't get any mail and then the whole Italian Army went along, it seems, to keep him company". This is first and foremost a love story, however, and as such it succeeds beautifully, right through to the remarkably intense ending. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com