terrible adaptation of heminway low key love story . an american soldier ( rock hudson ) fall in love with a british nurse ( jennifer jones ) in italy during world war 1. what wrong with this . virtually everything . hudson be way out of his depth here . he could be a good actor but not in this movie . jones be far too old for her role ( she 21 in the book here she 38. and look it . ) . also her act waver between overdone and underdone . they take a simple low key love story and blow it all out of proportion . the film be fatally long ( a little over 150 minute ) and self indulgent and pad to a ridiculous degree . it seem producer david o. selznick thought he be do go with the wind again . some of the scenery be truly stunning ( even on a small tv screen ) but there not enough of a story to match the image . spoiler . the end where jones dy be suppose to be tragic but the bad acting and overblown theatrics have me fight not to laugh . to make matter bad actor vittorio de sica overacts to a truly embarrassing degree . overblown and self indulgent and badly cast and slow . pretty terrible . this be ( understandably ) a financial and critical bomb and end selznick career a a producer . you might want to tune in for some of the scenery at the end but it really not worth it . i give this a 3 .