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Screen Guild Theater · April 10, 1944 · 28 min · 3,728 words
The transcript of “A Farewell to Arms”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast April 10, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The Screen Guild Players, Starring Players, This is Gary Cooper, this is John Fontaine, and this is Alfredo DeCorte, Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in a radio adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's immortal story
of the First World War, a farewell to Arms. It stars Gary Cooper as Frederick, John Fontaine as Catherine, and Pedro DeCortebe as the Priest. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in a farewell to Arms.
The big guns going day after day. If you've ever heard the guns like that, I think that you will understand. Not a charge. Even now I cannot say that they were right or wrong.
That boy. Forget the war. Can't we forget the war for a while? And that girl... If the guns would stop, they would only stop. The boy fled it equal. Wasn't a American volunteer. A lieutenant in our Italian ambulance call.
The girl's gathering was in us. One of those whom the English had sent to help our hospital behind the lines that year in 1917 We need that much help the war was going badly for us There at the hospital we could hear the guns and all week long the ambulances came all week long they process
What the guns had left it was that week the American came in straight from the blood and heart of the front straight back from death And all he asked, what kind of a town is this? Any girls?
And so they made that boy and that girl. And that evening they sat outside in the garden, and the guns were pounding in their hearts. Sort of nice out here. Yes, it is. It's only the dungent stuff.
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