I didn't really care for this movie. Glenn Ford is a widower and his son Ron Howard tries to set him up with a woman. You know from the start that it's going to be Shirley Jones. The problem is that I felt she was too good for him. He comes across as a jerk, so does the woman he dates for a while Dina Merrill. Stella Stevens is cute though as a redhead. It's good acting but it didn't work for me.
Cary Grant and Carole Lombard are in love. However his wife Kay Francis refuses to give him a divorce. Kay Francis is a villain in this movie and is really the reason to watch this movie. She's unlikable and cold, but gives a great performance.
This is a silent French serial that took me three nights to watch. It's 6 hours and a half. It is about a man (Ivan Mozzhukhin) wrongly accused of murder. His friend Charles Vanel did it and he is also in love with Ivan's wife. Ivan's daughter though has always known her father was innocent. Eventually there is justice. My favorite serial is Les Vampires but this is a pretty good one. Charles and Ivan both put on a good show.
I got this movie because I'm a fan of Suzanne Pleshette. She's good in it but underused. Youngblood gets his first book published. Pleshette's his editor. At first things all good but this country boy soon finds himself in an affair, a suicide, and his career and being dwindles. The actor who is the best in this movie is Genevieve Page, the woman he is having an affair. She crumbles as well.
Barbara Stanwyck is married to a German who abandons her to join in his country for war. This hurts her as the Germans are the enemy in the war. She's also torn between a love for Ralph Bellamy. This was an ok precode.
