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Format:
Video disc
Title:
For whom the bell tolls
Uniform Title:
For whom the bell tolls (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9780783229485
Distribution:
Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, [1998]
Publication:
[Los Angeles, Calif.] : Paramount Pictures, [1943]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (2 hr., 46 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1943.

"Newly restored with intermission music, photo montage and original theatrical trailer."

Bonus materials: Production notes; Cast and filmmakers (bios); Lobby cards; Production photographs; Theatrical trailer; Universal web links.
Contents:
Overture/main titles -- An act of terrorism -- Night life in Spain -- Meeting with the general -- Scouting out the bridge -- Dynamite for the republic -- A gypsy trapper -- We eat! -- Pablo and Pilar -- Getting along with the natives -- A disagreement -- A warning and a confession -- Pablo and the horses -- Airplanes and scouting -- A man of rumors -- The need for more horses -- Pilar's anger -- Alone with Maria -- Where do the noses go? -- The troop report -- Roberto's opinion -- A drunk or a coward -- He wasn't always like this -- The return of Pablo -- Intermission -- A trooper in the snow -- Four more troopers -- An army passes by -- Are you afraid to fight? -- Captains and cowards -- Pablo's crime -- Tending the horses -- Maria tells her story -- Seeing the colonel -- Taking care of a man -- Dreaming of America -- The search continues -- Pablo's cowardice -- To the bridge -- "Until soon" -- An urgent dispatch -- The attack -- Setting the explosives -- To catch a tank -- Hurry, Roberto! -- Pablo's machine gun -- A casualty of war -- Robert Jordan's soliloquy.
Summary:
The story of Robert Jordan (Cooper), an American demolition expert who lends his abilities to the anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors that includes the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff), and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the screen's greatest love stories.
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