I'll Be Seeing You
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Movie Reviews of I'll Be Seeing You
Movie Review: wonderful movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a very interesting movie with a darker side to it. Ginger Rogers is wonderful playing against type and pulling it off. The family itself is very good and Shirley Temple does a great job as the insensitive teenager.Movie Review: I"ll be seeing you
Summary: 5 Stars
Great wartime story with so much heart. They don't make them like this anymore. Ginger Rogers plays a different kind of role then you're use to seeing and she pulls it off great.Movie Review: Bushka
Summary: 5 Stars
Brings back family when I was growing up.Nice to have better times why back when!!!!!Movie Review: Tame romance
Summary: 4 Stars
As good as he is, I've yet to see Joseph Cotten in a truly animated role. (NIAGARA is perhaps his most dramatic and THE THIRD MAN his most famous.) Zachary Morgan (Cotten) is a socially inert, shell-shocked, purple hearted, sergeant wondering what to do during an 8-day furlough from an army psychiatric hospital. On a train to Pinehill, he meets Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers), lonely, downhearted manslaughter convict on a Christmas furlough from prison. Despite awkward moments initiated by flashbacks, their attraction grows. Zach openly confides secrets to Mary, though she feels reciprocation will bring condemnation. As Zach builds the courage to propose marriage, Mary recoils. Her teenage cousin Barbara Marshall (Shirley Temple) innocently reveals Mary's circumstances to Zach. He then must decide how to cope with the revelation.
I'LL BE SEEING YOU is definitely not a Rogers musical comedy nor is it a typical Cotten noir. Action is isolated to a dog encounter during an evening stroll. The only dancing by Rogers and Temple is the waltz at a New Year's celebration. Expect singing? There's a family Christmas carol around the dinner table. The dialogue isn't particularly clever but genuine. I'LL BE SEEING YOU is a rather tame linear drama inspiring hope while delivering a message about acceptance, honesty, and chastity that may well appeal to romantic audiences or those scarred by war or other personal adversities. Image quality is very good. With an all-star cast, mediocre plot and no DVD extras, I rate the movie 3.5 stars (rounded to 4).
Movie quote: "You have to get used to accepting what you think is second best, and then you find out it's first best after all."
Movie Review: A Bittersweet Valentine: Poignant Storytelling At It's Best
Summary: 4 Stars
"I'll Be Seeing You" is a bittersweet melodrama about a female convict, Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) who is released from the state penitentiary on a Christmas leave. Boarding a westbound train, Mary meets Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten) an army sergeant who has just been released from a mental hospital. The two develop an affinity for one another on their journey, so much so that, after learning he'll be spending Christmas alone, Mary invites Zach to her place for dinner. The unlikely romance that blossoms between these two is both tragic and poignant. Mary keeps her incarceration a secret and Zach does his best to conceal the fact that he is a man with more than his share of psychological problems. Ultimately the story dissolves into the sort of treacle one might expect from war time schlock and nonsense, but it's central performances are so solid and poignant that one easily overlooks the implausibility of it all and has a tear jerking, heart-rending good cry and smile through it all. MGM's DVD is impressive. The B&W picture exhibits a very nicely balanced gray scale with smooth, solid blacks and very clean whites. Age related artifacts are present throughout but do not distract. Some minor edge enhancement crops up and there is more than a hint of pixelization in infrequent spots but overall the picture will surely not disappoint. The audio is mono but more than adequate for a film of this vintage. There are no extras.