A Farewell to Arms (Region B)

A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Dual Format Edition)
A film by Frank Borzage

Based on the 1929 best-selling novel by Ernest Hemingway, Frank Borzage’s 1932 Oscar-winning film adaptation of the tragic Great War romance is newly restored by Lobster Films, and available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

An impossibly handsome Gary Cooper stars as the somewhat cynical Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American enlisted in the Italian army to drive ambulances during the war. Through his doctor friend, Rinalidi (Adolphe Manjou), he meets Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes), an English nurse whose fianc was killed at the Somme. What starts as a flirtatious and casual encounter soon develops into something much deeper but can their passion survive the terrible consequences of the war?

A hugely popular film when it was first released in 1932,A Farewell to Armswas nominated for four