A Farewell to Arms 1957

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: This film, for all its size and color, doesn't do much more by Hemingway's book than was done by the sentimental version of it played by Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper some twenty-five years ago. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The exaggerated production values overrun everything, including director Charles Vidor, who hardly seems to know which way to turn. Read more

TIME Magazine: What Hemingway wrote as an interlude of amorous flutes and distant drums, Producer David 0. Selznick has scored for brass. Read more

Time Out: A padded Ben Hecht script and Selznick's invariable tendency to overkill are equally to blame. Read more

Philip Roth, The New Republic: Perhaps what is most irritating about the film is that too many times an exciting scene of Hemingway's is shucked out in favor of a distressingly inferior one invented (if I may indulge the Muse a moment) by Ben Hecht, who is responsible for the script. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Sweep and frankness alone don't make a great picture; and Farewell suffers from an overdose of both. Read more