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Title: Random Harvest
Where to view it: You can buy "Random Harvest" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Apple TV, Vudu online.
Random Harvest is one of the tropiest melodramas I've ever had the pleasure of seeing on film. (The main plot device is that Ronald Coleman's character gets amnesia TWICE.) It is only plausible because of the luminous Greer Garson and Ronald Coleman selling it--but it works magic.
Ronald Coleman plays a WWI vet with no name and no history. He escapes from an asylum, meets a beautiful dancehall star named Paula, and the two run away together.
They're married and he's starting to be a writer and it seems like they will live happily ever after ...
... until he goes to the city and gets run over by a car and gets amnesia AGAIN. This time, he remembers his life before the war (he's a rich guy from a rich industrialist family!) but doesn't remember his time with Paula. He takes over the family business and starts working in politics. Paula manages to track him down, but doesn't reveal herself as his wife--she wants him to remember her. So instead, she gets a job as his secretary.
There's angst! There's melodrama! There's a happy ending! It's so sappy but so good.
Where to view it: You can buy "Random Harvest" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Apple TV, Vudu online.
Random Harvest is one of the tropiest melodramas I've ever had the pleasure of seeing on film. (The main plot device is that Ronald Coleman's character gets amnesia TWICE.) It is only plausible because of the luminous Greer Garson and Ronald Coleman selling it--but it works magic.
Ronald Coleman plays a WWI vet with no name and no history. He escapes from an asylum, meets a beautiful dancehall star named Paula, and the two run away together.
They're married and he's starting to be a writer and it seems like they will live happily ever after ...
... until he goes to the city and gets run over by a car and gets amnesia AGAIN. This time, he remembers his life before the war (he's a rich guy from a rich industrialist family!) but doesn't remember his time with Paula. He takes over the family business and starts working in politics. Paula manages to track him down, but doesn't reveal herself as his wife--she wants him to remember her. So instead, she gets a job as his secretary.
There's angst! There's melodrama! There's a happy ending! It's so sappy but so good.
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Date: 2024-07-06 10:41 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2024-07-07 06:08 am (UTC)From:In any case, the earliest possible date is 1941, when the book this movie was based on came out.
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Date: 2024-07-07 10:35 am (UTC)From:And I guess the magical forgetting in some fairy tales is an old precursor.
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