""... let's live for today.""
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
Joan Fontaine
Manina Stuart
Joseph Cotten
David Lawrence
Françoise Rosay
Maria Salvatini
Jessica Tandy
Catherine Lawrence
Robert Arthur
David Lawrence Jr.
Jimmy Lydon
Johnny Wilson
Fortunio Bonanova
Grazzi
Grazia Narciso
Bianca
Anna Demetrio
Rosita
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
Joseph Cotton is "David", a wealthy engineer travelling post war Italy when he encounters concert pianist "Manina" (Joan Fontaine). They have some time to kill before their flight back to the US, so go exploring and manage to miss their plane. Serendipity takes a hand - the plane crashes - affording them the perfect opportunity to play dead and allow their burgeoning romance to develop... All seems to be going to plan until his wife "Catherine" (Jessica Tandy) and young son "David Jr." (Robert Arthur) decide to visit Italy and call upon her friend "Maria" (Françoise Rosay) and... Fontaine is good in this film, she always had an understated class that this role suits well. She has a chemistry with Cotton - never the most natural of actors in a romantic setting - and with some lovely Capri scenery (perhaps monochrome photography doesn't quite do justice to the "Blue Grotto") this makes for quite an engaging drama with a fine score from Victor Young and a charming refrain of Kurt Weill's "September Song" to add a maturity to this, admittedly rather thoughtless and selfish, love story.
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
เหตุการณ์ในภาพยนตร์เกิดขึ้นในปี ค.ศ. 1972 ริชาร์ด คอลเลียร์ (Reeve) นักเขียนบทละคร ได้รับนาฬิกาพกโบราณเรือนหนึ่งจากหญิงชรา ผู้ขอให้เขาสัญญาว่าจะเดินทางกลับไปหาเธอ 8 ปีต่อมา ในปีค.ศ. 1980 ริชาร์ดเดินทางไปพักผ่อนที่โรงแรมแกรนด์โฮเตล รัฐมิชิแกน เขาได้เห็นภาพถ่ายเก่าของสาวสวยคนหนึ่ง ถ่ายเมื่อปี ค.ศ. 1912 เธอชื่อ เอลีส แมกแคนนา (Seymour) นักแสดงที่มีชื่อเสียงในช่วงต้นศตวรรษที่ 20 เขายังค้นพบอีกว่า เธอเป็นคนเดียวกับหญิงชราที่มอบนาฬิกาพกให้เขาเมื่อแปดปีก่อน ซึ่งเสียชีวิตหลังจากนั้นไม่นาน ริชาร์ดยังค้นพบอีกว่า เขาสามารถเดินทางย้อนไปในอดีตได้ด้วยการสะกดจิตตัวเอง เขาเดินทางย้อนเวลาไปยังปี ค.ศ. 1912 และพบกับเอลีส ทั้งคู่มีความรักอันลึกซึ้งต่อกัน... แต่แล้ววาระที่พวกเขาต้องแยกจากกันก็มาถึง...
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Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life. While studying for the New York Bar Examination and working to finalize his divorce, Ryan meets dancer Gittel Mosca, and the two begin a cautious courtship. However, Ryan feels that he must come to terms with his failed marriage and overcome his lingering attachment to his ex-wife before he can redefine himself and embrace his budding romance.
Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.