The Macomber Affair The Macomber Affair The Macomber Affair is a 1947 movie set in British East Africa concerning a fatal triangle involving a frustrated wife, a weak husband, and the professional hunter who comes between them. The film was distributed by United Artists and directed by Zoltan Korda, and features Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston. The screenplay was written by Casey Robinson and Seymour Bennett and adapted by Bennett and Frank Arnold, based on "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", the 1936 Ernest Hemingway short story. The film was rereleased in 1952 by Lippert Pictures as The Great White
A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) grand-scale love story, it's all just a meaningless protracted spectacle." After this film, David O. Selznick left the movies completely, producing no other films. The movie earned an estimated $5 million in North American rentals and by the end of 1958 had made worldwide rentals of $6.9 million. Fox made some money on the movie but Selznick did not recover his costs. Vittorio De Sica was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but lost to Red Buttons for "Sayonara". A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope drama