I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

best movie i've ever seen.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I am only giving a 5 due to the performance of Irene. But yet again through the years the projection of America as all there is to this world is ridiculous. As if any Scot or Englishman would actually accept the words mentioned in the film. Disgusting. On the other hand its more of a romance novel than a war movie as war is like a sidewalk into this film. The story line overall is nice but it should be filmed in a difference scene than use the theme of war to input this romance story. presenting the power of actors and words in the art of cinema is one thing, but using it as political brainwashing a propaganda is another. As a scene from the film America is a circus just like the band marches when war is announced by them.

As I was watching this film -- a sentimental film produced DURING World War II -- I couldn't help but think how ironic it was that the sentimentality of the story would be virtually obsolete in American films just one year later, as World War II ended and America faced a new reality in the world.Nevertheless, this is a charming story, albeit a somewhat melancholy one. It is usually labeled as a home front war movie (covering both World Wars), but the war really doesn't come into the picture except at the beginning and almost halfway through the film. And it ends well before the end of the picture. Then the story is of how the living go on with life. So, I would prefer to see it as a romance taking place in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the war is part of the story...the sad part. I'm not sure why, but in some ways it reminds me of "Mrs. Miniver", although it is a very different film.An American newspaper publisher -- the always delightful Frank Morgan -- and his daughter -- the also always delightful Irene Dunne -- vacation in England where Dunne's character is swept off her feet by upper class army officer, Sir John Ashwood -- Alan Marshall (who is excellent). The honeymoon begins just as World War I breaks out. Sir John is killed in action near the end of the war, but not before siring a son, who in turn goes off to World War II, while his mother is a nurse. And what will his fate be? The supporting actors in this film are superb -- Gladys Cooper, Dame May Witty, Elizabeth Taylor (so young here she is almost unrecognizable), among others. Perhaps the goofiest part was played by Van Johnson; was it bad acting or supposed to be that way?There's a great scene between Frank Morgan and C. Aubrey Smith early on in the film...over a chess set. Another exceptional scene is where Dunne points out the insensitivity of her British hosts.This is a very "handsome" production. If there is a problem with the film -- at least for Americans -- the pace is a bit slow. Although it feels like a British film, it is actually and American MGM production. I'm not quite sure I agree with the film's ending. Too much sacrifice for one woman. Excellent. Well worth an "8", a rating I rarely give.

Well, I had a good attitude going in since I like a number of the cast members, beginning with Irene Dunne. However, one viewing was enough because (1) this is a woman's movie; (2) there are way too many "darlings" spoken in the dialog; and (3) the film is just a bit too boring in too many spots.There are some good points to this movie. The story is involving and a tragic one that tugs on your heartstrings. Dunne's character,Susan Dunn Ashwood," is American. She marries an Englishman "Sir John Ashwood" (Alan Marshall) who dies in World War I. She raises their son "John, Jr." (Roddy McDowell, as young boy, and then Peter Lawford as an adult). He dies in the end, too, so you see there is a lot of sadness in this story. I appreciated the nice photography in here, too, and Dunne's role as a patriotic American who sticks up for her country on a foreign soil most of her life.This is one of those rare films that seem better afterward that when you are watching it!

This was an incredible War movie which spanned WWI and WWII. It was a romance/drama. Irene Dunne is the female lead who falls in love with and marries a man who soon goes off to fight in France during World War I. He dies and she had his child, a boy.The boy grows to manhood and is played by Peter Lawford. As the movie ends, Dunne is seeing her son, Lawford go off to fight in WWII. You can see the pain and the pride in Dunne's eyes.It was a fabulous movie. It dramatizes the great sacrifices made by the British in both World Wars. Britain lost so many of her sons in WWI, I believe the stats were approximately 50% of men between the ages of 18 and 45. The movies points up the fact that the loses, pain and suffering of the English were about to be revisited in WWII.I can appreciate this and other war movies as I am the mother of a Marine who is about to be sent to Iraq.