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Bookmark this pageThe Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Director: John Cromwell
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Icky romantic whimsy adapted from Pinero's play about a honeymoon cottage which waves the magic wand of love to transform a pair of uglies into an ideal couple. Full of sanctimonious guff, and not made any more palatable by the glamour convention whereby Young's war wounds give him Frankensteinian facial scars (nobody thinks of plastic surgery) while McGuire's blemishes just need a touch of the hairdos to set right. Ted Tetzlaff's clean camerawork comes out of it with distinction, but Herbert Marshall (as the blind pianist who composes a tone poem to the lovers) wins the yuk of the year award.Author: TM
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- redjellydonut said...
- Posted on Nov 15 2007 03:41 What a cheap and loathsome excuse for a review of this charming and poignant romance! The Enchanted Cottage is a lovely and moving fantasy, a wonderful example of the genre. It's staggering and inexplicable to me how so most of the reviewers at Time Out manage to pass such easy judgement on films while clearly having absolutely no avocation for the job.
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- Belinda Gibson said...
- Posted on Nov 11 2007 17:12 I find it difficult to believe that anyone with a pulse couldn't possibly agree that this movie is a classic. Unfortunately it's only shown on the ABC at some ungodly hour during the working week, but I always check the tv magazine to see if it is being shown again. I think it's an absolutely lovely film, sure it's a little on the soppy side, but who cares. Life's too grotty these days with all the reality tv and garbage happening around the world. Give me a little romantic escapism and fantasy any day.
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- David Fowler said...
- Posted on Oct 10 2007 20:05 Yet again I find a childish hatchet job passing for a review here. It's getting laughable. If a film has any merit at all 95% of the time I can find it trashed by Time Out's "critics". In response to "TM's" remarks regarding "The Enchanted Cottage" I can only say that one would indeed have to be a raging asshole, pathetically cynical and jaded to feel that way about one of the most genuinely beautiful and moving fantasy love stories ever on the screen, and I can only feel pity and contempt for such an attitude and for such a person.
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Cast & crew
Director: John Cromwell
Producer: Harriet Parsons
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Spring Byington, Hillary Brooke full cast
Duration: 91 mins
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