A Farewell to Arms (1932) by Kino on Dec 27 Review

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Farewell to Arms Blu-ray

A Farewell to Arms Blu-ray Review


This is the Gary Cooper movie directed by Frank Borzage.

Many years ago Image released the only good dvd edition of "A farewell to arms", an excellent one actually: no extras, but the only dvd edition ever featuring the original Paramount 1932 Pre-Code cut of the movie (from an original nitrate print, I believe).

For some reason the rights to this movie passed on to Warner some years later, and they wanted to re-release the movie in 1945. For this, the movie had to undergo numerous cuts under the Production Code. They also changed the musical score, and opening credits (then being presented as a Warner movie).

Then the rights fell into public-domain. There are a lot of worthless crappy dvd editions by different houses, and they all use this latter version of the film, the re-release version with the Warner logo and shorter running time.

So I just pray to God Kino is using the original cut for this blu-ray, the one Image used. This is the point of writing this post and starting this thread. I wish someone could confirm this with Kino!


BTW, the recently announced Kino's December wave of 4 classic titles is already up for pre-order at Amazon (including this one), and it seems they have lowered the price. Well the Keaton movie has the same price as all previous Keaton releases, I believe (excluding the box-set, obviously).