Release Date: Jan 1, 1946 Wide
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical company owned by the Hamilton family and managed by Larry Hamilton (George Brent). Just as she is celebrating the armistice and anticipating the return of her husband John (Orson Welles), she learns he was killed in action, just days before the cease fire. Pregnant with their child and alone in the world, she is taken in by Larry Hamilton, who has loved her from afar and is
Jan 1, 1946 Wide
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A weepie family drama tailor-made for Douglas Sirk that is ably but too rationally directed by Irving Pichel.
two good things about this one 1) Orson Welles with a beard and 2) it revived his career after the whole hard knocks of Hollywood. It is ultimately the most melodramatic movie I've seen of Welles and I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous it seemed to be at times but the ending was bittersweet.
August 3, 2010
The plot is certainly a little far fetched and melodramatic but it is an engrossing and well made films as well. With Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles heading the cast, it's hard to go wrong. Nice art direction. It's quite interesting seeing a very young Natalie Wood.
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