A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) are passed over too abruptly, being suggested rather than told ... Gary Cooper gives an earnest and splendid portrayal [and] Helen Hayes is admirable as Catherine ... another clever characterization is contributed by Adolphe Menjou ... it is unfortunate that these three players, serving the picture so well, do not have the opportunity to figure in more really dramatic interludes." Dan Callahan of "Slant Magazine" notes, "Hemingway ... was grandly contemptuous of Frank Borzage's version of "A Farewell to Arms" ... but time has been kind to the film. It launders out the writer's ... pessimism and replaces it with
Nandanar (author) Nandanar (author) Nandanar was the pseudoyum of P. C. Gopalan (1926–1974), who was one of the three famous Malayalam writers whose novels and stories depicted the life in the army camps and battlefields during the 1940s and 1950s, the other two being Kovilan (P. V. Ayyappan) and Parappurath (K. E. Mathai). He took his pseudonym from the name of a famous devotee of Lord Shiva, and one of the 63 Nayanars in Shaivism. "Anubhavangal", "Ira", "Thokkukalkkidayile Jeevitham", "Athmavinte Novukal", "Ariyappedatha Manushyajeevikal", "Anubhoothikalude Lokam" etc. are some of his better-known works. Adept in depicting the nostalgic sentiments of army men who