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Mar 25, 2024 · A Farewell to Arms” is a gripping tale of love and survival, set against the backdrop of the brutal Italian front during World War I. Based on Ernest Hemingway’s acclaimed novel, the film follows the passionate relationship between an English nurse and an American soldier, as they navigate the horrors and chaos that surround them.
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- 'To Have and Have Not' (1944) Director: Howard Hawks. Regardless of how far from a close of an adaptation it is, To Have and Have Not is an undeniable romance classic.
- 'The Killers' (1946) Director: Robert Siodmak. Featuring Ava Gardner in one of her best roles (though she could've gotten more screen time), the first adaptation of The Killers endures the best.
- 'The Breaking Point' (1950) Director: Michael Curtiz. The Breaking Point is the second adaptation of To Have and Have Not and features John Garfield (in his second to last film role) and Patricia Neal as the lead.
- 'Captain Khorshid' (1987) Director: Nasser Taghvai. Made in Iran by talented filmmaker Nasser Taghvai, Captain Khorshid is one of the few Ernest Hemingway adaptations that aren't English-spoken.
Pages in category "Films based on works by Ernest Hemingway". The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
- The Killers
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- To Have and Have Not
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- The Old Man and The Sea
The Killers uses Hemingway’s short story as a kind of springboard. The author once explained his bare, muscular prose by saying that “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” If the writer is writing well enough, the reader will be able to discern what he is omitting. The Killers fills in that invisi...
For Whom The Bell Tolls is the rare Hemingway adaptation that sticks pretty close to the (extremely successful) novel. Gary Cooper plays Robert, an explosives expert who falls for Maria (Ingrid Bergman, in her first color film) as they fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. (Hemingway reportedly had Cooper and Bergman in mind while he ...
Hemingway had a kindred spirit in fellow man’s man and director Howard Hawks. The two made a bet that Hawks couldn’t make a movie out of Hemingway’s worst book, To Have And Have Not. Hawks succeeded by throwing out the entire plot, including the class inequalities reflected in the book’s title, and starting from scratch. In both versions, protagoni...
“The Snows Of Kilimanjaro” is one of Hemingway’s finest short stories: As a writer named Harry lies dying of gangrene on a hunting trip in Africa, he flashes back to all the mistakes he’s made in his life. In the movie version, produced by 20th Century Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck, those regrets are expanded to craft a tale of a lost love: Cynthia, pl...
Hemingway finally won his Pulitzer (and Nobel) for this comeback novella: the saga of aging fisherman Santiago, striving to break a long streak of bad luck for one final successful run. Naturally, it would take an actor of double Oscar-winning caliber like Spencer Tracy to command the audience’s attention for a mostly solo 90-minute voyage. The glo...
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- A Farewell to Arms (1932) Rotten Tomatoes® 94%
- The Macomber Affair (1947) Rotten Tomatoes® 67%
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Rotten Tomatoes® 86%
- The Old Man and the Sea (1958) Rotten Tomatoes® 80%
Jan 4, 2024 · A Farewell To Arms Is Based On Ernest Hemingway’s 1929 Landmark Novel Of The Same Name. (Image credit: Netflix) As detailed by Deadline in the announcement for A Farewell to Arms,...
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Thrown off the Orient Express in 1922 Bulgaria, an American gets shelter from the station master and his daughter, but the young woman decides to go with the traveler to Paris, so her father has to...
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