Is anyone in the mood for one of the saddest premises in old movie romances? That's saying quite a lot, but it's really true of One Way Passage and its remake 'Til We Meet Again. On a cruise ship, a condemned man on his way to death row and a woman with a terminal illness fall in love.
Are you reaching for your Kleenexes yet? You'll need an entire box for this movie, trust me. It's so incredibly sad, and it has one of the rare plots that isn't dated. It could easily have been remade every twenty years and audiences would still flock to it. A modern audience would obviously require more sex scenes, but there's enough allusion in the black-and-white versions to get the point across. William Powell, normally classy and debonair, gets a new persona as the rugged convict. He's not getting the death penalty for tax evasion, after all. Kay Francis, one of the most famous heroines of the 1930s, gets another tearjerker role as a woman whose strength might fade before she's had a chance to really live. You've been warned; bring your Kleenexes. I don't think it matters which movie you watch first, but you can pick based on the cast. The remake stars Merle Oberon and George Brent.
Are you reaching for your Kleenexes yet? You'll need an entire box for this movie, trust me. It's so incredibly sad, and it has one of the rare plots that isn't dated. It could easily have been remade every twenty years and audiences would still flock to it. A modern audience would obviously require more sex scenes, but there's enough allusion in the black-and-white versions to get the point across. William Powell, normally classy and debonair, gets a new persona as the rugged convict. He's not getting the death penalty for tax evasion, after all. Kay Francis, one of the most famous heroines of the 1930s, gets another tearjerker role as a woman whose strength might fade before she's had a chance to really live. You've been warned; bring your Kleenexes. I don't think it matters which movie you watch first, but you can pick based on the cast. The remake stars Merle Oberon and George Brent.