I hear David Lean married his star Ann Todd during the filming of this flick so that would explain the inordinate number of grueling close-ups of the ever suffering Mary in this long drawn-out soapy melodrama.
Mary loves Steve and vice-verse but she wont marry him because she wants to be herself or whatever and she is last seen fleeing the scene.
The movies begins at a ball in or around 1948 then a flash-back to another ball 1938-39 new years, then a flash-back within a flash-back at scenes of love and love. Confusion ensues, at least for me because I'm not sure if it's suppose to be circa 1948 or flash- back #1 or #2.
Anyway, Mary ends up marrying much older but ironically filthy wealthy banker Claude Raines (bad toupee) because she likes his money and their twin beds.
Then she meets Steve again and loves him again and they have an affair and she is gonna leave Claude for Steve but doesn't but then he wants a divorce and she doesn't and then he kicks her out of the mansion and she goes down the near-by tube station to plunge herself in front of a train but Claude miraculously appears and saves here and they go off to the mansion and I guess live miserably ever-after (meanwhile Steve has married and has two kids and seems happy or not, I'm not sure). I never heard of this film before (no wonder) and only watched it on FilmStruck because of David Lean. Well, you can't win them all.
Mary loves Steve and vice-verse but she wont marry him because she wants to be herself or whatever and she is last seen fleeing the scene.
The movies begins at a ball in or around 1948 then a flash-back to another ball 1938-39 new years, then a flash-back within a flash-back at scenes of love and love. Confusion ensues, at least for me because I'm not sure if it's suppose to be circa 1948 or flash- back #1 or #2.
Anyway, Mary ends up marrying much older but ironically filthy wealthy banker Claude Raines (bad toupee) because she likes his money and their twin beds.
Then she meets Steve again and loves him again and they have an affair and she is gonna leave Claude for Steve but doesn't but then he wants a divorce and she doesn't and then he kicks her out of the mansion and she goes down the near-by tube station to plunge herself in front of a train but Claude miraculously appears and saves here and they go off to the mansion and I guess live miserably ever-after (meanwhile Steve has married and has two kids and seems happy or not, I'm not sure). I never heard of this film before (no wonder) and only watched it on FilmStruck because of David Lean. Well, you can't win them all.