A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope drama film directed by Charles Vidor. The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. It was the last film produced by David O. Selznick. An earlier film version starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. While recovering from a wound
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in the January, 1954 edition of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" and later in "Beyond Lies the Wub" in 1984 and in "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford", a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories, in 1990. The story is told from a first person perspective of a young man and his friend, a scientist named Doc Rupert Labyrinth (also appearing in Dick's short story "The Preserving