Word: mccarey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director and Co-Writer Leo McCarey told this tremulous tale once before in 1939 (Charles Boyer v. Irene Dunne). On this familiar old heart-wrenching ground, Cinemanipulator McCarey, whose heart is as big as a whale's, carefully swings the plot pendulum-like between gladness and sadness. Cary and Deborah agree to rid themselves of their previous encumbrances, make a date to meet again after six months devoted to finding themselves (she was once a singer; he painted). But on the day of their reunion, a screech of brakes is heard offscreen, and next thing Deborah is a cripple...
...Aldo Ray in the roles originated by Irene Dunne, Gary Grant and Ralph Bellamy. It also adds Technicolor and several songs and dances. Unhappily, it subtracts much of the romping good fun of the original, perhaps because the cast is not quite as proficient, and because Director Leo McCarey is no longer wielding the slapstick...
...John dramatizes a theme of front-page importance. Unfortunately, its subject is relegated to the more colorful but less newsworthy show-business section. The complex dramatic material is reduced to simple melodramatics and, in Leo McCarey's plodding direction of a muddled and maudlin screenplay, the picture has not much to offer either politically or cinematically...