A Farewell to Arms (1932) on Netflix
Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver, meets Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, in Italy during World War I. Wounded in battle, he is sent to a Milan hospital where she is posted.
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Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American, drives an ambulance for the Italian army on the Italian front during World War I. While he is out carousing with his friend Rinaldi, a bombing raid sends him into a dark stairway, where he meets Catherine Barkley, an English Red Cross nurse, and her friend Fergie. Drunk, he makes a poor first impression. At a concert Catherine tells him of a soldier she was to marry, who died in the fighting. He attempts a kiss and she slaps him, then asks him to kiss her again. Before he leaves for the front, he promises Catherine he will come through the battle unharmed, and she gives him her St. Anthony medal.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Farewell to Arms (1932)
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A Farewell to Arms was released in more than one version with different endings: in one Catherine Barkley dies, in another she lives, and in a third her fate is left ambiguous. International audiences were shown only the tragic ending.- Director Frank Borzage's A Farewell to Arms was the first Ernest Hemingway novel to be released as a film, a distinction no earlier Hollywood adaptation of his books could claim.
- The original 89-minute version had not been seen since the 1932 release and was long believed lost, but a nitrate print was found in David O. Selznick's vaults and Image Entertainment put the uncut film out on DVD in 1999.
- In 1960 the film fell into the public domain in the United States because its last claimant, producer David O. Selznick, did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.
