Now, Voyager (1942)
Country: US
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper
Synopsis:
A Bostonian spinster, long oppressed by her mother, succumbs to a nervous breakdown, spends time in an institution, embarks on a voyage of recuperation and discovery, falls in love with a married man, and ends up caring for his similarly conflicted daughter.
Review:
Classic Warner Brothers woman's picture, which recounts the sufferings and depicts the rarefied world of its characters as if war had never broken out and made such things irrelevant luxuries. Once you have seen it you will not forget Cooper's tyrannical matriarch, Rains's loveable psychiatrist or the way Davis has of holding her head and choking back the tears. Henreid plays a variation on the earnest, haunted, but honourable and impossibly handsome character he played in a dozen movies, and trademarks a way of lighting two cigarettes at once that had everyone copying him for a time. Steiner wheels on an unforgettable melody at moments of yearning, and generally we had no better until Brief Encounter.
Country: US
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper
Synopsis:
A Bostonian spinster, long oppressed by her mother, succumbs to a nervous breakdown, spends time in an institution, embarks on a voyage of recuperation and discovery, falls in love with a married man, and ends up caring for his similarly conflicted daughter.
Review:
Classic Warner Brothers woman's picture, which recounts the sufferings and depicts the rarefied world of its characters as if war had never broken out and made such things irrelevant luxuries. Once you have seen it you will not forget Cooper's tyrannical matriarch, Rains's loveable psychiatrist or the way Davis has of holding her head and choking back the tears. Henreid plays a variation on the earnest, haunted, but honourable and impossibly handsome character he played in a dozen movies, and trademarks a way of lighting two cigarettes at once that had everyone copying him for a time. Steiner wheels on an unforgettable melody at moments of yearning, and generally we had no better until Brief Encounter.
Country: US
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper
Synopsis:
A Bostonian spinster, long oppressed by her mother, succumbs to a nervous breakdown, spends time in an institution, embarks on a voyage of recuperation and discovery, falls in love with a married man, and ends up caring for his similarly conflicted daughter.
Review:
Classic Warner Brothers woman's picture, which recounts the sufferings and depicts the rarefied world of its characters as if war had never broken out and made such things irrelevant luxuries. Once you have seen it you will not forget Cooper's tyrannical matriarch, Rains's loveable psychiatrist or the way Davis has of holding her head and choking back the tears. Henreid plays a variation on the earnest, haunted, but honourable and impossibly handsome character he played in a dozen movies, and trademarks a way of lighting two cigarettes at once that had everyone copying him for a time. Steiner wheels on an unforgettable melody at moments of yearning, and generally we had no better until Brief Encounter.