Review of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) by Bosley Crowther for The New York Times — 18 May 1993
In spite of its almost interminable and physically exhausting length—it takes two hours and fifty minutes to cover less than four days in a group of people's lives—and in spite of some basic detruncations of the novel's two leading characters, it vibrates throughout with vitality and is topped off with a climax that's a whiz.
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This review of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) was written by Bosley Crowther and published by The New York Times on 18 May 1993.
For Whom the Bell Tolls has generally received positive reviews.
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