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Movie Info

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter (Gary Cooper) is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke (John Halliday) and Duchess of Towers (Ann Harding). When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary -- but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

Genre:

fantasy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Henry Hathaway
Producer:

Louis D. Lighton
Writer:

Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 11, 2017
Runtime:

1h 28m

Cast & Crew

Gary Cooper
Peter Ibbetson

Ann Harding
Mary, Duchess of Towers

John Halliday
The Duke of Towers

Ida Lupino
Agnes

Douglass Dumbrille
Colonel Forsythe

Virginia Weidler
Mimsey

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Critic Reviews for Peter Ibbetson

All Critics (3) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (1)

Awfully dated and sentimentally sappy but finely acted by Ann Harding and Gary Cooper...

April 20, 2020 | Full Review…

Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
Esquire Magazine
Romantic, though rather tearful.

July 22, 2019 | Full Review…

Ann Ross
Maclean's Magazine
Incredibly peculiar.

October 21, 2011 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
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Audience Reviews for Peter Ibbetson

Feb 27, 2014

self-serious and wildly sentimental, it still manages to work, due in large part to the delicate cinematography. even coop's typically stiff performance seems appropriate in this otherworldly tale of lovers who meet in dreams. 'the strangest things are true and the truest things are strange'

Stella D Super Reviewer
Jan 30, 2012

Odd semi fantasy film has a good performance from a dashing Gary Cooper to recommend it but the pacing is off. The mood is too earthbound to make it haunting and too celestial for a standard telling. Part of the problem is that Ann Harding while a fine actress is miscast as the object of Gary's lifelong desire, a more ethereal performer was required, Merle Oberon would have been perfect. The appearance of an almost unrecognizable Ida Lupino as a bit of Cockney baggage is a treat but she's in and out of the film in under fifteen minutes.

jay n Super Reviewer
Jun 08, 2008

not great - but kinda reminds me of portrait of jennie and stairway to heaven - that transcendent love defying time and space... thaaang.

Bob S Super Reviewer