I saw this film on television in Sweden, when I was about twelve years old. Together with "The Life and Times of Colonel Blimp" (Pressburger/Powell), it was a film, I will always remember.
The latter film, I have seen again and it is still as fine. This film, I haven't seen for thirty-six years now. I may be excused, if I reveal what I know of it, even if it means that I become something of a spoiler.
It's all about a character, played by Kirk Douglas, who encounters a girl in Paris (just post-war WWII or even during WWII?) and is prevented by his well-meaning but nevertheless patronizing sergeant to do the 'right thing' for the girl and marry her.
Years later he turns up at a resort of some kind, sees the sergeant there, quite by accident, and tells when asked about the girl, whom the sergeant thinks he 'saved' Kirk from, that the girl drowned herself.
Then he visits a room, that the girl had told him about, in the same hotel outside which he met the sergeant. It was a room the girl had loved and in a voice-over you can hear her describe it as Kirk's stands there looking at it. I wept floods when I saw this and only 'Wuthering Heights' can hold a candle to this ending, when it comes to love between the genders.
I have since only wept more, when seeing the ending of 'Elephant Man' but here the love is of a different kind.
Would I cry today if I saw it? I don't know - it isn't available!!
The latter film, I have seen again and it is still as fine. This film, I haven't seen for thirty-six years now. I may be excused, if I reveal what I know of it, even if it means that I become something of a spoiler.
It's all about a character, played by Kirk Douglas, who encounters a girl in Paris (just post-war WWII or even during WWII?) and is prevented by his well-meaning but nevertheless patronizing sergeant to do the 'right thing' for the girl and marry her.
Years later he turns up at a resort of some kind, sees the sergeant there, quite by accident, and tells when asked about the girl, whom the sergeant thinks he 'saved' Kirk from, that the girl drowned herself.
Then he visits a room, that the girl had told him about, in the same hotel outside which he met the sergeant. It was a room the girl had loved and in a voice-over you can hear her describe it as Kirk's stands there looking at it. I wept floods when I saw this and only 'Wuthering Heights' can hold a candle to this ending, when it comes to love between the genders.
I have since only wept more, when seeing the ending of 'Elephant Man' but here the love is of a different kind.
Would I cry today if I saw it? I don't know - it isn't available!!