A Farewell to Arms

Hollywood legend David O. Selznick's final film as producer was this lush retelling of Ernest Hemingway's story of love and loss in World War I. Rock Hudson stars as Lt. Frederick Henry, a wounded American officer and ambulance driver who falls for British Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Jennifer Jones, Selznick's wife). The pair finds their love put to the test time and again as war rages on around them. With Vittorio De Sica, Mercedes McCambridge, Oscar Homolka. 152 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; theatrical trailers.