There's only one factor keeping this from being a movie masterpiece: its length.
I'd like to read the original story or script. It has the kernel of a great screenplay, and is wonderfully enacted by Gilbert and Moran.But after four writers got through with it, and the editor cut it to 68 minutes, there are too many dangling threads:
-Moran first meets Gilbert who's alone in a room at a "party" he's hosting, but we're shown no party, just a nightclub.
-After their brief encounter and marriage, he flees to Arizona, where she somehow finds him and gains entry to his house.
-He says he has six months to live, but nothing more is made of this when they reach a happy ending.
-His ex-finacee has broken off her engagement to another man, but nothing comes of this.
-When she leaves AZ, she is said to be driving too fast in a car she's unfamiliar with, but no accident ensues.
This film was a hit with me because it left me begging for more.
I'd like to read the original story or script. It has the kernel of a great screenplay, and is wonderfully enacted by Gilbert and Moran.But after four writers got through with it, and the editor cut it to 68 minutes, there are too many dangling threads:
-Moran first meets Gilbert who's alone in a room at a "party" he's hosting, but we're shown no party, just a nightclub.
-After their brief encounter and marriage, he flees to Arizona, where she somehow finds him and gains entry to his house.
-He says he has six months to live, but nothing more is made of this when they reach a happy ending.
-His ex-finacee has broken off her engagement to another man, but nothing comes of this.
-When she leaves AZ, she is said to be driving too fast in a car she's unfamiliar with, but no accident ensues.
This film was a hit with me because it left me begging for more.