A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
"Every woman who has loved will understand"
Top Billed Cast
Helen Hayes
Catherine Barkley
Gary Cooper
Lt. Frederic Henry
Adolphe Menjou
Major Rinaldi
Mary Philips
Helen Ferguson
Jack La Rue
Priest
Blanche Friderici
Head Nurse
Mary Forbes
Miss Van Campen
Gilbert Emery
British Major
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
G genplant29Verified TMDB Critic
2018-02-08
An Academy Awards Best Picture nominee, this is a very good film that, despite its occasional experimentation and evident striving for greatness, doesn't quite reach the mark it hopes to. Nonetheless, it's unmistakably high quality and remains very watchable, enduringly appealing, and, in places, impressive.
The big glaring shortcomings are the experimental moments - which don't work and are distracting - and the fact that Miss Hayes is, much of the time, given over-ripe, unnaturally worded and stagy sounding dialogue to speak - and so much of the time, despite that she does give a fine, cl...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2024-01-01
Frank Borzage presents us here with quite an effectively abridged version of the Hemmingway story of wartime romance. "Frederic" (Gary Cooper) is an American soldier who finds himself in hospital being cared for by nurse "Catherine" (the almost porcelain-like Helen Hayes). Their's is quickly a love story that has to compete with the atrocities of the Great War as he and she are both transferred and it becomes harder for them to communicate and be together. "Frederic" isn't helped by the well meaning interventions of his captain "Rinaldi" (Adolphe Menjou) who ensures that their written correspo...
