Random Harvest (1942)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Dec 17, 1942 Wide
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no identity and no next of kin, he has nowhere else to go. Unable to stand the loneliness, Colman wanders into the streets, then stumbles into a music hall, where he is befriended by good-natured entertainer Greer Garson. That Colman and Garson fall in love and marry should surprise no one; what is surprising, at least to Colman, is that he discovers that he has a talent for
Dec 17, 1942 Wide
Jan 11, 2005
MGM Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Ronald Colman
Charles Rainer/John "Sm... -
Greer Garson
Paula Ranier -
Philip Dorn
Dr. Jonathan Benet -
Susan Peters
Kitty -
Henry Travers
Dr. Sims -
Edmund Gwenn
Prime Minister -
Reginald Owen
"Bitter" -
Bramwell Fletcher
Harrison -
Rhys Williams
Sam -
Una O'Connor
Tobacconist -
Melville Cooper
George -
Margaret Wycherly
Mrs. Deventer -
Aubrey Mather
Sheldon -
Arthur Margetson
Chetwynd -
Alan Napier
Julian -
Jill Esmond
Lydia Chetwynd -
Marta Linden
Jill Kitty's Mother -
Ann Richards
Bridget -
Norma Varden
Julia -
David Cavendish
Henry Chilcotte -
Ivan Simpson
Vicar -
Marie de Becker
Vicar's Wife -
Olive Blakeney
Woman -
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Henry Daniell
Heavy Man -
Elizabeth Risdon
Mrs. Lloyd -
Lumsden Hare
Sir John -
Sam Harris
Member of the House of ... -
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Terry Kilburn
Boy -
George Kirby
Conductor -
Peter Lawford
Bit Part -
Cyril McLaglen
Policeman -
Kay Medford
Wife -
Leonard Mudie
Old Man -
Helena Phillips Evans
Ella the Charwoman -
Hilda Plowright
Nurse -
C. Montague Shaw
Julia's Husband -
Reginald Sheffield
Judge -
Arthur Shields
Chemist -
Arthur Space
Trempitt -
Ian Wolfe
Registrar -
Frederic Worlock
Paula's Lawyer -
Lowden Adams
Clerk -
Madge Crane
Mrs. Sims -
Pax Walker
Sheila
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (1) | DVD (8)
LeRoy's schmaltzy and literary romantic melodrama, about a WWI vet who suffers from amnesia, was a huge commercial hit due to Greer Garson and Ronald Colman's acting and the fact that it was released in the midst of WWII.
Dated, but still moving '40s classic with Garson and Colman.
Parts of it are tender and beautiful, but other parts are overplayed, maudlin, and about as subtle as a clunk on the head or a taxi across the sternum.
...a remarkable story of love and devotion, patience and endurance, an original and fascinating motion picture.
...it is the kind of love-found, love-lost, love-found tale that appeals to most anyone's sense of romanticism, nostalgia, and fair play.
the abundance of talent rescues the material
Lavish but far-fetched tearjerker
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