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- Vintage shorts Don't Talk and Marines in the Making
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 11, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ronald Colman & Greer Garson | |
Performer: | Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Reginald Owen, Edmund Gwenn, Henry Travers, Margaret Wycherly & Ronald Colman | |
Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy | |
Edited by | Harold F. Kress | |
Screenwriting by | Claudine West, George Froeschel & Arthur Wimperis | |
Composition by | Herbert Stothart | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Randall Duell | |
Produced by | Sidney Franklin | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Ruttenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Garson and Ronald Colman beautifully play the delicacy of two aching souls trying to recapture their lost romance.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 8/10 --
...it is the kind of love-found, love-lost, love-found tale that appeals to most anyone's sense of romanticism, nostalgia, and fair play.
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Movie Metropolis
This 1942 classic is one of those great romantic dramas that Hollywood seems incapable of making these days...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Parts of it are tender and beautiful, but other parts are overplayed, maudlin, and about as subtle as a clunk on the head or a taxi across the sternum.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rating: 4/5 --
Dated, but still moving '40s classic with Garson and Colman.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Lavish but far-fetched tearjerker
Film Journal International
Rating: 3.5/5 --
the abundance of talent rescues the material
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Filmcritic.com
Description by OLDIES.com:
Paula Smith (Greer Garson) is the secretary of industrialist Charles Rainier (Ronald Colman). She's also his wife, which Charles does not know. Shell-shocked during World War I, he doesn't recall his days as her husband, John Smith. Advised not to endanger Charles' fragile mental state, Paula cannot openly reveal her identity. She must find other ways to help him remember their life together.
From the novel by James Hilton (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) comes one of the great sentimental romance movies. Garson's Paula, alongside her same-year triumph as Mrs. Miniver, established her persona as the strong, self-sacrificing wife. Random Harvest gathered seven Academy Award nominations and also reaped a box-office harvest as the year's number 4 hit.
Product Description:
Based on the novel by James Hilton (whose LOST HORIZON and GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS had already been made into profitable films), this lavish MGM show features Ronald Colman as a soldier who has lost his memory. He escapes from the hospital to find himself alone on the streets as the public cheers the end of World War I. Showgirl Paula, played by showstopper Greer Garson, takes home the handsome amnesiac, and the two start a blissful marriage while leading a life of poverty. But when Colman is hit by a car, he regains his memory from before the war while losing all records of the events since--including his marriage to Garson. Colman resumes his life as aristocrat Charles Rainier while Garson takes on a fictitious identity to become his secretary, hoping that one day he will recognize her for his wife. This blockbuster romance directed by the great Mervyn LeRoy survives today on the heat the two stars emanate for each other.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Paula Smith (Greer Garson) is the secretary of industrialist Charles Rainier (Ronald Colman). She's also his wife, which Charles does not know. Shell-shocked during World War I, he doesn't recall his days as her husband, John Smith. Advised not to endanger Charles' fragile mental state, Paula cannot openly reveal her identity. She must find other ways to help him remember their life together. From the novel by James Hilton (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) comes one of the great sentimental romance movies. Garson's Paula, alongside her same-year triumph as Mrs. Miniver, established her persona as the strong, self-sacrificing wife. Random Harvest gathered seven Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture and Colman as Best Actor) and also reaped a box-office harvest as the year's #4 hit.
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- UPC: 012569525122
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