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January 1953 (USA)
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A book is sent to the publishers under the name of "Lom", a popular writer, long believed to be dead...
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postwar problems
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mai Zetterling | ... | Valerie Martin |
 | Herbert Lom | ... | Dominic Danges |
 | Richard Attenborough | ... | Pierre Bonnet |
| Hermione Baddeley | ... | Mme. Louise Menstrier |
| Nicholas Hannen | ... | François |
| Olaf Pooley | ... | Cheri, male secretary |
 | Eric Pohlmann | ... | Louis, the proprietor |
| Kathleen Byron | ... | Arlette de Balzamann |
| Joan Young | ... | Mrs. Gertrude de Montfort Cole |
| Althea Orr | ... | Mrs. Eunice Weinhardt |
| Virginia Bedard | ... | Mrs. Irma Reinhardt |
| Joan Hickson | ... | Hortense, the housekeeper |
| John Penrose | ... | Repatriation Officer |
| Geoffrey Toone | ... | Swedish Consulate Clerk |
| Mara Lane | ... | Cafe Singer |
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85 min
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The title refers to one of the novels that the heroine has written which she passes off as being written by her late husband.
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One of those films that dealt - perhaps neither deliberately nor directly - with sorting out the muddle of war, and so a very distant relation of The Return of Martin Guerre as much as The Captive Heart. It was Lom's attempt at playing a romantic hero, and it didn't come off; he's too saturnine and grumpy. But artistically this has an upside, as it leaves us unsure whether the heroine will go for him or the more puppy-like, and more British, Attenborough. Alas, it all needs the Lubitsch touch, or at least the Michael Powell one; instead, it's wobbly in tone, shuffling between romance, comedy, farce and the odd echo of the war (Attenborough has blackouts caused by shrapnel in his head), along with some lame satire of Americans. It isn't bad - and it looks great, with high-contrast mono photography - but it isn't very good either.