Storyline

Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul, and Jean, who was imprisoned with Paul in a German camp. While attempting to escape from the camp Paul is shot, and Jean goes to see Marise, confirming the news she had gotten already about Paul's death. Jean has fallen in love with Marise through the stories Paul told him, and wants to stay with her in the seaside town in Brittany where Paul owned a small business.—Ron Kerrigan

Plot Keywords

based on play, melodrama, nazism, pow, presumed dead, prison, psychiatrist, return, shock, melancholy, love triangle, loneliness, betrayal, concentration camp, disillusionment, friendship, germany, guilt, homecoming, home

Short Review

This film had lots of production issues, and was released without an accredited director. But, the hands of Mervin Le Roy and George Cukor are evident (they are two of the four directors who reportedly worked on the film), as this is a beautifully filmed story of a woman, hoping her husband, a POW, will return to her. Instead, the woman (wonderfully played by Greer Garson) becomes the victim of a duplicitous attempt by a fellow POW who tells her her husband is dead and tries to effectively take his place as her husband. This is an under-appreciate gem.

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Streaming Service

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