This film, along with Reunion In France, are the only two films in John Wayne's long career, that I can never bring myself to watch again. All three leads were just too old to play the parts of such juvenile characters. This was painful obvious during the meeting with the Mexican family. The good news...the end of this film would mark the start of probably his greatest 10-year stretch of his moviemaking career.
Posts from falc04 in thread „Without Reservations (1946)“
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Hi Falc,
That you totally dislike this movie I understand quite well - my opinion is totally opposite, so it is nothing to descuss. What interests me - is DVD version is worth buying (I have this movie at VHS) and are there any features in this collection?
Regards,
Senta
Hi Senta,
The DVD does have some minor extras, but nothing in connection with the film. For what it's worth, the transfer is fairly sharp, so if your a fan of the film (which it appears you are), then I do not believe you'd be disappointed with purchasing it.
And let me say, out of all the films Duke made during his long career, I could count the number of unwatchable ones on one hand. This just happens to be one of them (along with Reunion In France and Lady For A Night). -
First, let me start off by saying I have always disliked this film. The plot is beyond juvenile and the lead actors were much too old to be playing the poorly written characters they were portraying in the story.
Seeing as I just received the new Warner box set, and that this film was included, I decided to see if time away from it had somehow made it a better movie. And do you know what I found...it's still a turkey! You know a movie is bad, when you keep checking the time to see how much longer it'll be before it ends. Claudette Colbert's every line delivery has a wine to it, that just gets under your skin (ooooohhhhhhh, Russssttttttty). And when was the last time an author of a book was treated like Queen Elizabeth. The film just goes on-and-on-and-on-and-on, and nothing ever happens.
This one is so bad, I can't ever imagine another time when I'll look thru all my Duke DVDs, and want to watch this one again. -
Here is one movie that certainly ranks at the bottom of John Wayne's films for me. All three main actors were at least 10 - 15 years older than the characters they were suppose to be playing. The 'aeroplane' scene on the train, where Miss Klotz is drunk is pain-inducing to watch. The jokes are forced, and the direction is sloppy. My rating of this one would be a 2/10...
