What was your favorite war time movie or war time romance movie.. Mine was " From Here to Eternity"

[moniss]

61. I would say the

heart breaking "Sayonara" from 1957 about love forbidden by the American military after WW2 and during Korea.

Also I would have said "A Farewell to Arms" but none of the adaptations do the novel justice. As a teen reading Hemingway in school most of us boys trudged along through it while our teacher did recaps and tried to make us see bigger things. As we neared the last chapter we thought we could see relief in sight.

But as the chapter unfolded and the last pages were read we became something other than the people we were when the novel started. To this day one of the most powerful things I've ever read.

The 1932 film was OK but still didn't get it. The 1957 remake by Selznick was atrocious. In fact this was Hemingway's reaction when Selznick announced Hemingway would be paid $50,000 of the profits: " Unhappy with Selznick's decision to cast his nearly 40-year-old wife as a character intended to be in her early 20s, he replied: "If, by some chance your movie, which features the 38-year-old Mrs. Selznick as 24-year-old Catherine Barkley, does succeed in earning $50,000, I suggest that you take all of that money down to the local bank, have it converted to nickels, and then shove them up your ass until they come out your mouth." Papa had a way with words and didn't like what Hollywood did to his novels.

Hollywood could not find a director who was able to portray the emotional development and loss on the part of a man that Hemingway portrayed in the novel. Fine lines between hard and soft, bitter and yearning and then in the end.........all gone so fast. It's difficult but on so many levels Hemingway packed so much into that novel all set in the way things were. For men and women. For war and casualties that go beyond what is incurred on the battlefield.

He said he rewrote the last page 39 times until he felt he had it right. I believe him.