Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

moonspinner55 Beautiful young woman with amnesia may hold the key to the murder of a soldier; the victim was actually the woman's sweetheart, while her newly-acquired husband was the soldier's war-buddy who was enlisted by his friend to write love letters to the lass back home. Hoary Paramount melodrama with Gothic trimmings, adapted by Ayn Rand from Christopher Massie's book, is all dewy-eyed and fog-enshrouded...anything (one presumes) to deflect attention from the ridiculous plot-line. Jennifer Jones barely connects with the other actors on-screen; her main concern seems to be in projecting an other-worldly quality (this attained by staring heavenward and speaking haltingly in a breathy whisper). One never fears for Jones' character because she has removed herself intrinsically from the proceedings--all we have left to absorb is her affected (one might say, purposefully modulated) temperament and overtly-posed exterior, staged as if in a series of fashionable photographs. ** from ****

whpratt1 Jennifer Jones, (Singleton/Victoria Morland),"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing",'55, plays a young girl who communicates with a soldier in World War II and Joseph Cotton,(Allen Quinton),"Niagara",'53, writes letters to Victoria and for some reason, starts falling in love with a girl he has never met and is really not his girlfriend. There is some very deep dark mysterious facts surrounding this Victoria Morland and these love letters become major importance to the outcome of this story. This film is very well directed and produced in black and white which makes it a very dramatic and realistic with a London, England background. Jennifer Jones was married to quite a few men in real life, one was Robert Walker, "Strangers on a Train". Joseph Cotton and Jennifer Jones gave a classic performance in a very well acclaimed motion picture in the year 1945. Joseph Cotton was a leading star during the 40's and starred with Marilyn Monroe in "Niagara", 1953.

Athanatos Given the job of writing screenplays from novels, Rand takes Chris Massie's book and thoroughly rewrites it into something more like =Cyrano De Bergerac= with a happy ending! (This is in keeping with Rand's tendency to either write what she thinks someone else should have written, or about what she thinks someone else should do or have done.) And -- it works! Although subject to the same sort of dismissal by establishment critics the rest of Rand's work, this is actually a very, very good film!

zader Although lacking the thematic elements of screenwriter Ayn Rand's subsequent novels, the script to this movie has an elegant plot and style characteristic of Rand's ever-popular novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Jennifer Jones is stunning as the quintessential innocent. I have watched the movie about three times and enjoyed it tremendously each time.