For Whom the Bell Tolls 11/01/25

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards, Paramount’s blockbuster adaptation of the ‘hot’ Ernest Hemingway novel was given a grand Road Show release, then cut by over half an hour for general audiences. Poor studio curatorship left the biggest picture of its day in a restoration limbo. This new disc works with the existing UCLA Archive restoration. A few visual issues can’t diminish the power of the drama or the performances of Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou, Akim Tamiroff and Gary Cooper; the production design of William Cameron Menzies represents the peak of Old Hollywood moviemaking in Technicolor, as does the film score by Victor Young. On Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics.
11/01/25