A Bell for Adano
1945 American war film directed by Henry King / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Bell for Adano is a 1945 American war film directed by Henry King and starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. It was adapted from the 1944 novel of the same title by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1945. In his review of the film for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther wrote, "... this easily vulnerable picture, which came to the Music Hall yesterday, is almost a perfect picturization of Mr. Hersey's book."[3]
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A Bell for Adano | |
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Directed by | Henry King |
Screenplay by | Lamar Trotti Norman Reilly Raine |
Based on | A Bell for Adano 1944 novel by John Hersey |
Produced by | Louis D. Lighton Lamar Trotti |
Starring | Gene Tierney John Hodiak William Bendix |
Cinematography | Joseph LaShelle |
Edited by | Barbara McLean |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Production company | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates | |
Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.5 million[2] |
In addition to the Broadway play (Cort Theatre, (12/06/1944 - 10/27/1945),[4] which starred Fredric March, there have been several other versions of the story. In a 1955 Lux Video Theatre adaptation, Edmond O'Brien had the lead, with a young Charles Bronson playing the part William Bendix took in the movie.[5] Barry Sullivan and Anna Maria Alberghetti were in a 1956 CBS telecast,[6] and John Forsythe played the major in a 1967 Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcast.[7][8]