A Farewell to Arms | |
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Directed by | Charles Vidor |
Screenplay by | Ben Hecht |
Based on | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
Produced by | David O. Selznick |
Starring | Rock Hudson Jennifer Jones Vittorio De Sica Elaine Stritch |
Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
Edited by | John M. Foley Gerard Wilson |
Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 152 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4,100,000;[1] $4.2 million[2] or $4,353,000[3] |
Box office | $20 million (worldwide)[3] |
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American epic war drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature-film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semiautobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick.
A 1932 film version starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.[4]