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A Farewell to Arms [DVD] [1932] [US Import] [NTSC]

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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
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00000ILEO
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,207 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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

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1.0 out of 5 stars The pits, 28 April 2003
By Michael Bo - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gary Cooper A Farewell To Arms [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
It serves you right if you really don't want to spend any money on dvd quality and you get stuck with LaserLight's edition, which is truly awful, sound and picture-wise. I mean, you're not liable to encounter a worse transfer than this one, so be warned.
The picture itself is great, of course, even better than I remembered. It has the extreme audacity to be unapologetically fullblown, certainly not romantic in the Hollywood, but neither quite as cynical as the Hemingway novel. The style is almost gothic, with a wonderful Adolphe Menjou thrown in for sleek comedy. The battle sequence almost parallel the ones i Milestone's groundbreaking 'Nothing Quiet on the Western Front', and Helen Hayes' deathscene has got to be among the most touching ever, only it gets a little heavy on the Wagner 'Liebestod' side.
If you ever wondered why Gary Cooper made it big, this is the picture to watch. You will be unable to take your eyes from him.
But this LaserLIght transfer is the pits. The worse. Awful.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Okish Movie terrible dvd, 20 Jul 2007
By T. Jarvis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Farewell To Arms [1932] [DVD] (DVD)
Im glad i brought this movie for a pound.
Terrible transfer of this movie realy unwatchable.
If you like the story then get the the 1950 movie its much better.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Awful quality, 21 Feb 2008
By Ms. Nicola Davis "Nicky MW" (Buckinghamshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Farewell To Arms [1932] [DVD] (DVD)
I bought the Elstree Hill version which is also awful quality, pleased it only cost a couple of pounds.
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