A Farewell to Arms

...Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes excel as the lovers fighting fate in Great War Italy.

...a fascinatingly awkward first world war epic...

It launders out the writer's I love you, you're good and plain and clean, but we're all going to die-style pessimism and replaces it with a testament to the eternal love between a couple.

...melodrama maestro Frank Borzage proved a perfectly suited adaptor for the then-recent bestseller, seeing past Hemingway’s forefronted masculinity to forge a febrile, expressive romantic tragedy.