Ernest Hemingway

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First screen version of Hemingway's novel by the same name about romance and desertion during World War I in Italy. An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps is wounded, falls in love with an English Red Cross Nurse, and joins her in Switzerland.

Romance of an American ambulance driver wounded in World War I who falls in love with his nurse

Injured on a hunting trip in Africa, a writer reflects on the compromises in his life in a series of flash-backs

Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, the man behind such films as Rosemary's baby, Love story, Chinatown, and The Godfather - tells it like it is and was in Hollywood. Includes his appeal to the Board of Directors short film that saved Paramount Pictures in 1970. Also, includes archival interviews about Evans with stars and filmmakers. Includes an Evans gag reel

A famous writer, recovering from injuries on east Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reflects on whether any meaning can be found in his life.

The painted desert: A mining engineer returns to his desert home to settle a long standing family feud and falls in love with the rival family's daughter A farewell to arms: he love story of a wounded American ambulance driver and an English nurse. Set on the Italian front during World War I

To have and have not: An American fisherman becomes involved with a beautiful young drifter and a French freedom fighter on Martinique. The big sleep: Private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder. Dark passage: A man wrongfully accused of his wife's murder escapes from prison to find the real killer. Key Largo: A man visits the widow and father of an old war buddy in a Florida island hotel and finds that an infamous...

Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight,...