A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)
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| Directed by | Charles Vidor |
| Screenplay by | Ben Hecht |
| Based on | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Starring | Rock Hudson Jennifer Jones Vittorio De Sica Elaine Stritch |
| Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
| Edited by | John M. Foley Gerard Wilson |
| Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 152 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4,100,000; $4.2 million or $4,353,000 |
| Box office | $20 million (worldwide) |
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American epic war drama film directed by Charles Vidor. 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 semiautobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick.
A 1932 film version starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.