Cinema: In the Can

Hollywood got set for the holiday trade and the annual year-end scramble for Oscars. Still in the can but ready for release are a batch of ambitious films with which cinemoguls hope to capture both cash and glory:

¶ David O. Selznick's version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson as the World War 1 American ambulance driver working with the Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of...

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