Picture a film like this made today. For starters it wouldn't be called Heaven Knows, Mr Allison! Possibly just Heaven Knows...but even that's a stretch. The characters would be cardboard, impossibly-beautiful celebrities. There'd be a bad nun joke. There'd be tacked-on, unnecessary action scenes, lots and lots of sexual innuendo, and to top it off a run-of-the-mill love scene...oh and before I forget, the two leads would have gotten together in the end, no doubt about that.
This film is one of the reasons I love old cinema (by old I mean from 1930 to say, 1980 (was born in '79). This is a fun movie to relax with on a cold Sunday night. The camera lingers on scenery and the performers, we're never in any real "hurry" to get to the big climactic showdown. The relationship between the two leads goes so far beyond today's "ooh she's HOT...ooh he's HOT" kind of thing, it is REAL, and dramatic on its own terms without the need for a heavy musical score or "insert emotion here" film-making. Well done movie I can watch over and over, which to me is the sign of movie magic.
This film is one of the reasons I love old cinema (by old I mean from 1930 to say, 1980 (was born in '79). This is a fun movie to relax with on a cold Sunday night. The camera lingers on scenery and the performers, we're never in any real "hurry" to get to the big climactic showdown. The relationship between the two leads goes so far beyond today's "ooh she's HOT...ooh he's HOT" kind of thing, it is REAL, and dramatic on its own terms without the need for a heavy musical score or "insert emotion here" film-making. Well done movie I can watch over and over, which to me is the sign of movie magic.