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Original title:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Made in:
USA 1943
Length:
156 min.
Seen:
on TV 31-07-1999
Review read:
15716 times
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel about the civil war in the late 30s in Spain.
Gary Cooper plays the American Robert Jordan who has gone to Spain to fight for the Republican cause against the fascists. Jordan is given the difficult and highly dangerous task to blow up a bridge in the mountains, which is part of a huge attack prepared by the Republican side against the enemy. In the mountains he stays with the guerillas and falls in love with a young girl, Maria (Ingrid Bergman), who has fled her village.
Apart from the performances of Cooper and Bergman in the leads most of the performances of the other actors seem too theatrical to modern audiences, including Academy Award winner Katina Paxinou as freedom fighter Pilar.
The version I saw was much too long, but a shorter version supposedly exists.
Directed by:
Written by:
Dudley Nichols from Ernest Hemingway's novel.
Cast:
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