A Farewell to Arms (WWI)
A Farewell to Arms
Directed by Frank Borzage
Helen Hayes - Gary Cooper - Adolphe Menjou - Mary Philips - Jack La Rue
A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I.
The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. 
The film also analyses Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting. Written by Josh Pasnak (IMDb) 
When this version of A Farewell to Arms came out, Ernest Hemingway hated this film. They turned his novel and put too much emphasis on the romance angle. 
When Papa Hemingway said that he obviously did not know Hollywood well at all. If he did just knowing Frank Borzage directed this film should have told him something. Borzage did a whole slew of tender romantic stories in the Thirties like Three Comrades, The Mortal Storm, stuff like that. A Farewell to Arms is definitely in keeping with that tradition.(IMDb)
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True that did happen, but the majority of Finnish units operated conventionally either in the Mannerheim Line or to the North/North East of it. This is what this film describes. The battle scenes are as authentic as any in Saving Private Ryan; if memory serves the "Soviet" Forces are Russian extras. 
Vehicles, weapons, uniforms are all entirely accurate. It's probably fair to consider this movie as Finland's SPR. Whereas some have criticized SPR for it's somewhat contrived plot, this movie has none of that; simply citizen soldiers called to save their nation. 
We watch as more and more of their friends are killed and wounded, in relentless Red Army assaults. This sense of loss is brought home again simply, but elegantly, in the scenes with the "home front". 
The final anticlimatic news of the armistice on the troops is depressing to see, but again entirely accurate. 
This film is a fitting tribute to the Finnish "Greatest Generation" who also did nothing less than save their nation- twice in 5 years from Soviet enslavement. by J. Collins (Amazon) 
