The Man from Yesterday (1932)

Director:

Berthold Viertel

Writers:

Neil Blackwell (story)
Rowland G. Edwards (story)

Release Date:

24 June 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | War

Plot:

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband. |

Plot Keywords:

Doctor | Hotel | Beautiful Woman | Male Female Relationship | Husband Wife Relationship

Cast

Claudette Colbert	...	Sylvia Suffolk
Clive Brook	...	Capt. Tony Clyde
Charles Boyer	...	Rene Gaudin
Andy Devine	...	Steve Hand
Alan Mowbray	...	Dr. Waite
Greta Meyer	...	Inn Proprietress
Barbara Leonard	...	Steve's Girl
Yola d'Avril	...	Tony's Girl
Ronnie Cosby	...	Baby Tony
Emile Chautard	...	Priest
George Davis	...	Taxi Driver
Christian Rub	...	Terrace Waiter

Runtime:

71 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

A pleasant but essentially silly time-waster

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

SPOILER ALERT Notes from my mother's diary, written in 1933 when the film first came out:

A triangle drama, in which a war-widow – since her husband is supposed to have died in the war, but not definitely reported dead – decides to satisfy both her conscience and her body by going away with the man she now loves. Of course out of the millions of hotels there are in the world, they go to stay at the one where husband is trying to recover from shell-shock.

He lives long enough to suspend her love affair and dies most unexpectedly!