{"id":61594,"date":"2015-05-05T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61594"},"modified":"2015-05-05T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T23:43:06","slug":"opl-to-screen-farewell-to-arms-in-world-war-i-film-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61594","title":{"rendered":"OPL to Screen \u2018Farewell to Arms\u2019 in World War I Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Movie-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-60974\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Movie-night.jpg\" alt=\"Movie  night\" width=\"321\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Movie-night.jpg 321w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Movie-night-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Movie-night-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a>(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) Ernest Hemingway\u2019s third novel, set in wartime Italy, comes to life at Oneida Public Library in the rarely seen 1932 classic film \u201cA Farewell to Arms,\u201d which will be shown\u00a0Thursday May 7 at\u00a07 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the OPL\u2019s series of films set in World War I, \u201cA Farewell to Arms\u201d stars Helen Hayes as the British Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley and Gary Cooper as the American volunteer ambulance driver Frederic Henry. Their star-crossed love affair is set amid the war waged between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Alpine frontier between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>In 1932, Helen Hayes was already hailed as the First Lady of the American Theater, while Gary Cooper was solidifying his Hollywood star status. Their pairing as Hemingway\u2019s war-weary lovers proved remarkably successful at the\u00a0 box office, and \u201cA Farewell to Arms\u201d was one of the most popular films of 1932. It won an Academy Award for its cinematographer Charles Lang.<\/p>\n<p>Hemingway\u2019s biographer Michael Reynolds calls \u201cA Farewell to Arms,\u201d\u00a0\u201cthe premier American war novel from that debacle, World War I.\u201d The novel, like the film, has as its centerpiece the Battle of Caporetto (Oct.-Nov. 1917), in which\u00a0Italian troops were routed disastrously by a surprise Austrian\/German attack.\u00a0The Italians suffered\u00a010,000 dead, 30,000 wounded and 265,000 taken prisoner.\u00a0The battle\u2019s depiction and the executions that followed, coupled with Hemingway\u2019s sharp critique of the Italian military, was a key reason why the novel was banned in Italy by the Fascist regime.<\/p>\n<p>The film viewing is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) Ernest Hemingway\u2019s third novel, set in wartime Italy, comes to life at Oneida Public Library in the rarely seen 1932 classic film \u201cA Farewell to Arms,\u201d which will be shown\u00a0Thursday May 7 at\u00a07 p.m. Part of the OPL\u2019s series of films set in World War I, \u201cA Farewell to Arms\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}