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6.7/10   207 votes
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Writers:
Warren Duff (writer)
Robert Lord (from an original story by)
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Release Date:
20 April 1940 (USA) more
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Tagline:
FOUR WEEKS IN WHICH TO LIVE - an eternity in which to die. One of the grandest screen treats.
Plot:
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another. | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Merle Oberon ... Joan Ames
George Brent ... Dan Hardesty
Pat O'Brien ... Steve Burke

Geraldine Fitzgerald ... Bonny Coburn
Binnie Barnes ... Comtesse de Bresac
Frank McHugh ... Rockingham T. Rockingham
Eric Blore ... Sir Harold Pinchard
Henry O'Neill ... Dr. Cameron

George Reeves ... Jimmy Coburn
Frank Wilcox ... Asst. Purser
Doris Lloyd ... Louise
Marjorie Gateson ... Mrs. Hester
Regis Toomey ... Freddy
William Halligan ... Bartender on Boat
Victor Kilian ... Herb McGillis
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Till We Meet Again (USA) (alternative spelling)
We Shall Meet Again (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
99 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Illness caused director Edmund Goulding to be replaced for much of the film. Anatole Litvak shot approximately 26% of the film, William Keighley 4%, and 'Howard, William K. (I)' shot a few retakes. Goulding shot 70% of the picture around bouts of pneumonia. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The doctor states that Joan Ames has angina pectoris and that nothing can be done for her. In fact, nitroglycerine had been used for the treatment of angina since the 1870s. more
Movie Connections:
Remake of One Way Passage (1932) more
Soundtrack:
On San Francisco Bay more

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9 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
Another One Way Pasage, 4 January 2008
7/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

'Til We Meet Again is a remake of Warner Brothers earlier film, One Way Passage, a story of doomed romance that starred William Powell and Kay Francis. This film and the previous one concerns the shipboard romance of a man being brought back to the United States in custody to face the gas chamber in San Quentin and a terminally ill woman on a cruise for one last fling at life. Taking the parts of Powell and Francis are George Brent and Merle Oberon.

I can see Jack Warner's mind at work on this one. The year before George Brent had romanced and treated the terminally ill Bette Davis in Dark Victory. Why not get Brent into a remake of this other film about a dying woman and her last romance? We even get Geraldine Fitzgerald in this one in the same part, best friend to the terminally ill woman.

The part of the police lieutenant escorting Brent is built up considerably from One Way Passage where the role was played by Warren Hymer. Here Pat O'Brien is the cop and he's nobody's fool. Still Brent has friends on board, Frank McHugh who's a con man with a nice drunk act and Binnie Barnes who's a con woman with a phony French accent. She goes after O'Brien and not totally in the line of duty. She's also my favorite in this film.

Oberon and Brent make a beautiful pair of lovers and one had better have as big a supply of handkerchiefs as one did in watching One Way Passage.

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