Laikals
The greatest movie ever made..!
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Yash Wade
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
mark.waltz
An incredibly likable cast fails to rise above what is known as one of the worst screwball comedy's ever. It's nor a fault of the stars, pretty much the fault of the writer, producer, director and home office for demanding the participation of veteran Lew Ayres, new top star Robert Taylor, and in her second film, British newcomer Greer Garson. Professionals all, they do their best to hide any disgust they might have felt after understanding the hopeless script, the absurd story and the risk of being labeled box office poison in a year that this list was published. Old pals Taylor and Ayres find themselves at odds over the pretty Greer Garson, ironically engaged to Ayres. Involvement in a fox hunt has Garson and Taylor eloping, Ayres being graceful over it, and Taylor instantly disagreeable over his dislike of her entire family. That includes stuffy Reginald Owen, dizzy mother Billie Burke and flibbertigibbet aunt Laura Hope Crews. Taylor and Garson file for a quickly divorce, but numskull Ayres decides to reconcile them with a ridiculous drug that brings on amnesia.Perhaps the female audiences bought this kind of nonsense in 1939, but the critics rightfully panned it. Audiences stayed away, the three stars managed to recover, and the film got tossed aside from memory. But the late show, home video and TCM have brought it out of the dustbin. A few funny moments here and there add only a few laughs, but mostly it's full of groans. The MGM gloss can't make up for how bad this is, although a supporting cast (also including Sara Haden as Taylor's secretary and Henry Travers) add what little class there is. Do we remember? Unfortunately yes! The whole thing begins to repeat itself towards the end, leading to an outlandish conclusion.
MartinHafer
The idea of a soon to be divorced couple taking a drug that causes amnesia AND their falling in love all over again is a cute idea for a romantic film. However, there is just too much irrelevant comedic stuff in the first half of the film that just seems poorly written and a bit silly. Sticking with this story idea and introducing it much sooner might have helped the pacing--and gotten rid of all the irrelevant crap early in the film.The film starts with Lew Ayers introducing his fiancée (Greer Garson) to his best friend (Robert Taylor). Like a good friend, Taylor steals Greer for himself. At this point, the film is half completed--and made Garson and Taylor seem like real jerks. Poor Ayers--he seemed like such a nice guy that you couldn't help but hate the newly married couple. Why did they include this initial plot at all? There were some supposedly comedic moments leading up to it and Billie Burke plays her idiot routine well--but why write the film this way? It was as if the film didn't trust itself to be a romance and so it through in comedy and plot elements that seemed anything but romantic.Overall, it's not a bad film but a huge waste of talent. With Greer Garson (just off her success in GOODBYE MR. CHIPS), Robert Taylor and Lew Ayers, it should have been dynamite. The biggest problem is making it a goofy comedy instead of a romance. Blame for this goes to the writers and producer--why did they do this?!
edsevern
(Small spoilers) If you're a fan of Greer Garson (like me) or Robert Taylor (like me) you'll need to see this movie. If you're not a fan, you'll find the first forty minutes to be brilliant but the rest tiresome.This was Greer Garson's second film, and she's still young and beautiful here, with the full MGM glamour treatment. You can see that she hasn't perfected her acting skills yet; she does that next year in "Pride and Prejudice".Robert Taylor is delightful in the first half. Yes, he does steal Lew Ayres' fiancée, but Greer is hard to resist. Lew Ayres' character resigns himself to this fate rather easily, having obviously endured it from his friend many times in the past. Taylor is very funny when he gets startled several times. Greer and Taylor are wonderful together, even more so than they are two years later in "When Ladies Meet".If you're not a fan of either of these two, you'll still enjoy the first half of this movie. There are plenty of gags, funny lines, and good ideas; you could fill a whole web page with the hilarious things that Billie Burke gets to say.But after the popular surprise-party sequence, everything slows down; the movie could actually end at this point. There is no dramatic need for anything else to happen: up until this point Lew Ayres has never shown any desire to get Greer back. It's not even clear to me why he bothers to slips them the drug, other than to help them forget their misery.After eighty minutes, the movie ends very abruptly with Greer speaking a line that makes absolutely no sense. This one line will leave you shaking your head and wondering why you bothered with this movie. But go back and watch the first half again.As I said, if you're a fan, then watch it. Otherwise, if you come across this movie somewhere, watch until the surprise party scene and then be kind and rewind.
Pat-54
After Greer Garson made her film debut in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," she was awarded an Academy Award nomination and gained international stardom. Her second film was "Remember?" which I'm sure Miss Garson would rather have "forgotten." A silly script that totally wastes the talents of not only Garson but Robert Taylor and Lew Ayres as well.
