this be by far the bad hemingway adaptation ever . rock hudson be badly miscast and entirely unbelievable a a hard bitten soldier or adventurer drawn to war . jennifer jones be far too old for her part and vittorio de sica seem to think he be act in some other movie altogether . they try to make a large scale epic out of a low key romantic novel and the result be terrible . a if that be not enough the whole thing be so slow and overlong and date that it be practically unwatchable . rock must have kick himself for turn down sayonara and ben hur in order to make this ghastly crap . negative . to be avoid .