A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer is based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel by Ernest Hemingway. In 1960, the film entered the public domain due to the claimants failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. On the Italian front during World War I, Frederic Henry , an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, delivers some wounded soldiers to a hospital. There he meets his friend,... Italian Major Rinaldi , a doctor. They go out carousing, but are interrupted by a bombing raid. Frederic and English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley take shelter in the same place. The somewhat drunk Frederic makes a poor first impression. Rinaldi persuades Frederic to go on a double date with him and two nurses, Catherine and her friend Helen Ferguson . However, Rinaldi becomes annoyed when Frederic prefers Catherine, the woman the major had chosen for himself.
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