For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)


For Whom the Bell Tolls
Release Date14 July 1943
Budget$3,000,000
TaglineThe Most Thrilling Moment Ever Screened
GenreAdventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
CountryUSA
Filming LocationsBlue Canyon, California, USA
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
Sound MixMono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassRomantic Drama, War Romance, Resistance Film
ThemesStar-Crossed Lovers, Americans Abroad, Political Unrest
TonesForceful, Passionate, Poignant, Rousing, Sweeping
TagsBridge [structure], Civil War, Escape, Fascist, Girl, Guerrilla, Loyalist, Peasant, Spanish [nationality], Volunteer

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. This was Ingrid Bergman's first technicolor film. Hemingway handpicked Cooper and Bergman for their roles. The film was adapted for the screen by Dudley Nichols and was directed by Sam Wood. The film became the top box-office hit of 1943, grossing $11 million. It was also nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning one.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Robert Jordan

Mikhail Rasumny
Rafael

Eric Feldary
Andrés

Primitivo

El Sordo

Lilo Yarson
Joaquin

Alexander Granach
Paco

Adia Kuznetzoff
Gustavo

Leonid Snegoff
Ignacio

Leo Bulgakov
General Golz

Lt. Berrendo

Captain Gomez

Colonel Miranda

Staff officer

Martin Garralaga
Captain Mora

Jean Del Val
The Sniper

John Mylong
Colonel Duval

Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Kashkin

Cafe girl

John Bleifer
Peasant who flails González

Dick Botiller
Sergeant

Young cavalryman

Man who flails the mayor

Franco Corsaro
Elias' man

André Massart

Michael Dalmatoff
Mayor Benito García

Marjorie Deanne
Cafe girl

Girl in cafe

Soldier #1

Lynda Grey
Cafe girl

Soledad Jiménez
Guillermo's wife

Christopher King
Cafe girl

Alice Kirby
Cafe girl

Frank Lackteen
Elias' man

Louise La Planche
Cafe girl

Manuel López
Civil Guard

Antonio Molina
Guillermo

Ernesto Morelli
Civil Guard

Alberto Morin
Soldier #2

Mayo Newhall
Ricardo

Manuel París
Officer of Civil Guards shot by Pablo

Marcella Phillips
Cafe girl

Pedro Regas
Soldier #3

Tito Renaldo
Young sentry from Anselmo's village

Luis Rojas
Drunkard who flails Guillermo

Armand Roland
Julian

Konstantin Shayne
Karkov

George Sorel
Bored sentry reading newspaper

Robert Tafur
Faustino Rivero

José Luis Tortosa
Civil Guard

Trina Varella
Spanish singer

Director

Producer

screenplay

producer

Buddy G. DeSylva
executive producer

Original Music

Cinematographer

Ray Rennahan

Editor

John F. Link Sr.

Sherman Todd
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Production Designer

William Cameron Menzies
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Art Director

Haldane Douglas
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Set Decorator

Bertram C. Granger

Makeup Department

Wally Westmore
makeup artist

Production Manager

Lonnie D'Orsa
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Lonnie D'Orsa
assistant director

Joseph C. Youngerman
assistant director

Sound Department

Don Johnson
sound recordist

Harold Lewis
sound recordist

Special Effects

Jan Domela
special photographic effects

Farciot Edouart
process photography

Gordon Jennings
special photographic effects

Irmin Roberts
special photographic effects

Stunts

Paul Mantz
stunt pilot

Ted Mapes
stunt double: Gary Cooper

Camera and Electrical Department

Ned Scott
still photographer

Music Department

George Parrish
orchestrator

Leo Shuken
orchestrator

Other Crew

Natalie Kalmus
technicolor color director

Morgan Padelford
associate technicolor color director

Production Company

Paramount Pictures
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Distributor

Paramount Pictures
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MCA/Universal Pictures

CIC Vídeo

MCA/Universal Home Video
,

Paramount

Universal Home Entertainment

Miscellaneous

Emka Ltd.
current copyright proprietor






Navigation Boxes
The films of Sam Wood
Ambush (1950)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Guest Wife (1945)
Heartbeat (1946)
Hold Your Man (1933)
Ivy (1947)
Kings Row (1942)
Madame X (1937)
Our Town (1940)
Paid (1930)
Raffles (1939)
Stablemates (1938)
The Barbarian (1933)