This thing had script issues all the way through. I imagine he got befuzzled cause he had to add a love interest to this story where it didn't exist in the actual story this was based on.
Gary Cooper inherits a large English house and has to evict Joan Crawford and her bother. She's OK cause she moves into a garden house. Her brother, and his friend played by Franchot Tone, enlist into WWI. From here we get a lot of melodrama such whilst in France fighting the Germans. Gary Cooper decides to be a pilot and do his bit.
This one needed some real script rewrites or extra scenes added all the way through. First off, Gary Copper's character is on this very briefly in the beginning. From this we get him coming to take his house...riding a bike next to Joan Crawford on the road...and in the same scene he says he loves her...and she the same. Wait a minute! Am I missing something? Where's the lead up to this so called love between these 2? There isn't any. This was a serious misfire in this film.
That premise is basically the whole film. Joan Crawford's character marries her childhood friend even though she loves the Cooper character. She loves him but more in a friend like way. She finds out the Cooper character is killed off and she marries her friend. Eventually, he surprises her and shows that he wasn't dead. It was a mistake. Now she's torn.
The film works itself out. The ending is typical happy go lucky and they get together but it shoulda went another route.This was just too generic a film to be rated any higher than it is. Gary Cooper is dead wooden in this one and is most certainly not one of his high points in his career.
Browse past this one and try Hell's angels...a way better alternative.
Gary Cooper inherits a large English house and has to evict Joan Crawford and her bother. She's OK cause she moves into a garden house. Her brother, and his friend played by Franchot Tone, enlist into WWI. From here we get a lot of melodrama such whilst in France fighting the Germans. Gary Cooper decides to be a pilot and do his bit.
This one needed some real script rewrites or extra scenes added all the way through. First off, Gary Copper's character is on this very briefly in the beginning. From this we get him coming to take his house...riding a bike next to Joan Crawford on the road...and in the same scene he says he loves her...and she the same. Wait a minute! Am I missing something? Where's the lead up to this so called love between these 2? There isn't any. This was a serious misfire in this film.
That premise is basically the whole film. Joan Crawford's character marries her childhood friend even though she loves the Cooper character. She loves him but more in a friend like way. She finds out the Cooper character is killed off and she marries her friend. Eventually, he surprises her and shows that he wasn't dead. It was a mistake. Now she's torn.
The film works itself out. The ending is typical happy go lucky and they get together but it shoulda went another route.This was just too generic a film to be rated any higher than it is. Gary Cooper is dead wooden in this one and is most certainly not one of his high points in his career.
Browse past this one and try Hell's angels...a way better alternative.