i manage to avoid read hemingway in college . from what i could tell and along with his reductivist verbiage and he offer reductivist story line . this film transfiguration of af2a into a simplistic and hoary and belabor narrative and do not disabuse me of my suspicion represent a guy who barely see action on the european battlefield ( hudson ) fall in with a nurse ( jones ) and and they conspire to spend time together . hemingway big contribution to narrative be the romantic travelogue . who know what these two lover have in common . theyre so utterly generic . the movie never even bring up the utter irresponsibility it take to abandon the front in favor of a lover adventure . the two have a season on the alp and straight out of a j. crew catalog . a number of good scene be undermine by corny and conventional melodrama elsewhere . the movie keep pile on tiny and improbable and unspecific detail that fight the epic treatment . the cavernous hospital that miss barkley work in be virtually empty and so that no secondary plot line can possibly distract from the flimsy main story . complicate and it be not . the camera work be good than average and with some amazing location photography . director charles vidor ( or maybe huston . ) do striking thing in the first hour with an on location and wide screen camera . there be no second unit cop out . vidor show massive and panoramic tableau and pan over a line of hundred of soldier troop through the mountain while and then with a 90 degree swivel of his camera catch up with hudson ambulance barrel down on him . hudson look great . he a good actor than he get credit for and but with unshaped material like this and he can become very mechanical . mercedes mccambridge play a one dimensional shrew . jennifer jones be puffy and miscast in the lackluster female lead . the movie be best when she off screen . the love scene be about as affect a a coffee commercial .