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A Farewell To Arms review

The first, and still the best, adap of a Hemingway novel. In this 1932 classic from director Frank Borzage, set in WW1 Italy, Gary Cooper is the US ambulance driver who falls for Helen Hayes’ English nurse and goes AWOL to join her – to find she’s pregnant with his …

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Giant review

James Dean’s final film, released in 1956 after his death, makes for a disappointing epitaph. The combination of director George Stevens and source novelist Edna Ferber, both given to expressions of overblown high seriousness, yields a long, slow, achingly self-important movie. Rock Hudson is a cattle baron, Dean is a …

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