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Aka: A Farewell To Arms
Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the British Catherine Barkley. In the midst of war and some intrigue, the pair struggles to stay together and to survive the horrors around them.
Italië, WO I. De Amerikaanse luitenant Frederic Henry wint al gauw het vertrouwen van de Italiaanse soldaten en het hart van de Engelse verpleegster Catherine. Als Henry vanuit Milaan weer moet terugkeren naar zijn eenheid, vertelt ze hem dat ze een kind krijgt. Als Henry terugkeert van het front gaan de twee naar Montreux, waar ze zich verheugen op de geboorte van het kind. Het geluk is echter niet met hen...
The last film by producer David O. Selznick (GONE WITH THE WIND), this is the second dramatization of Earnest Hemingway's classic novel about love in the midst of war. The producer's hand is a bit heavy in its treatment of the material, but the enduring, touching heart of the story remains intact. Selznick's wife Jennifer Jones (CARRIE) stars as Catherine Barkely, a Red Cross nurse who falls in love at first sight with an American volunteer ambulance driver for the Italian Army, Lieutenant Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION). Their torrid affair ends with Catherine's pregnancy and Fredrick's retu...
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rn to the front, where he loses touch with his lover; she thinks he has forgotten her. When Frederick witnesses unjust action by his fellow soldiers, he deserts and goes to be with Catherine, but their love continues to be plagued by tragic circumstance.
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