A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano (1945) is a 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]

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]