Sentimental Journey is a 1946 film directed by Walter Lang and starring John Payne and Maureen O'Hara.
Sentimental Journey was re-created in 1958 as The Gift of Love , with Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack.
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Plot
Broadway producer Bill (John Payne) and his wife, Julie (Maureen O'Hara) can not have children. While walking along the beach, Julie finds an imaginative orphaned girl dubbed Hitty (Connie Marshall) and decides to adopt him, a plan that Bill approves when interrupted by work in his latest drama script. Shortly after, Julie died of a heart attack, leaving Hitty in Bill's sullen care, who seemed unable to connect with the girl. Guided and entertained by Julie's ghost vision, Hitty looks after Bill as he struggles to overcome Julie's death. At a Sunday afternoon party at a country house, Bill tells his friends to leave when Hitty describes his last visit from Julie. After Hitty escapes, Bill returns to the apartment and finds a recording of Julie's voice in which he describes Hitty as a "live link" that will always tie them up. Bill goes to look for Hitty, finds him on the beach where he first meets Julie and rescues her when the waves come crashing in. Back at the apartment, Bill slips Hitty into bed and tells his business manager that he has to get back to work now that he has a daughter to support.
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Cast
- John Payne as William O. Weatherly
- Maureen O'Hara as Julie Beck Weatherly
- William Bendix as Uncle Don "Donnelly
- Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. Jim Miller
- Glenn Langan as Judson
- Connie Marshall as Mehitabel "Hitty" Weatherly
- Mischa Auer as Gregory Petrovich Rogozhin
- Kurt Kreuger as Walt Wilson
- Trudy Marshall as Ruth
- Ruth Nelson as Mrs. McMasters
Reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times highlighted the film, calling it "a truly mawkish picture... a compound of an outdated situation, maudlin dialogue, and acting that is so bad and unreasonable throughout Street." John McCarten of The New Yorker described the plot as "bleak" and reported that "not a small drop of tears streamed down my cheeks" even though the film was "clearly designed to break my heart." Variety declares it a "weeper to end all weepers," and while considering the movie to be "sluggish and sometimes too well-planned," estimates it would be a box office hit. Harrison Reports calls it "pretty good drama," though "thin and slow-moving."
Apart from the less brilliant reviews from critics, the film was a success at the box office.
References
External links
- Sentimental Journey in AllMovie
- Sentimental Journey in the TCM Movie Database
- Sentimental Journey at the American Film Institute Catalog
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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