THERE is a noticeable difference between the structures of "A Farewell to Arms" as Ernest Hemingway wrote it and as David O. Selznick now presents it on the screen. Rock Hudson plays an American serving in the Italian Army during the "War to End All Wars".. more LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in A Farewell to Arms, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. A Farewell to Arms is particularly notable for … A Farewell to Arms, third novel by Ernest Hemingway. Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick (David O. Selznick). 1957’s A Farewell to Arms is a beautiful rendition of the classic Ernest Hemingway novel, and a remake by David O. Selznick Studios of the original 1932 film. David O. Selznick's 1957 remake of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms came about, oddly enough, because of Warner Bros.' plans to produce another remake, the 1954 A Star Is Born, starring Judy Garland.Selznick retained certain rights to that property after producing the original with Janet Gaynor in 1937, and proposed to studio head Jack Warner that they exchange rights for the two movies. Perhaps A Farewell to Arms' greatest sin is its changes from the adored Ernest Hemingway novel by the same name. Those studying the novel in high school or college are most likely using this film as their introduction to the work, unless they decide instead on the lengthier (and by … Throughout A Farewell to Arms , Hemingway shows how the harsh truths of reality always infiltrate and corrupt the distracting fantasies that characters create to … Epic farewell. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. Filmed on a simpler scale in 1932 (with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes starring), A Farewell to Arms was blown all out of proportion to "epic" stature for the 1957 remake--so much so that its original director, John Huston, quit the film in disgust. The 1957 remake of A Farewell to Arms seems like a good idea. A FAREWELL TO ARMS: Blu-ray (Selznick/2oth Century-Fox 1957) Kino Lorber Let’s face it, by the time veteran producer extraordinaire, David O. Selznick undertook the Herculean task to remake Ernest Hemingway’s immortal tale of love and war – A Farewell to Arms (1957) he hadn’t made a picture in nearly nine years. When A FAREWELL TO ARMS premiered on Turner Classic Movies on Sunday, February 15, 2004, as part of the cable channel's annual 31 days of Oscar, it became another long-awaited event. 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 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.