Just a delight from start to finish. Sure, the ending was expected but it made sense. I wish Dona did stay with the Frenchman though. He was so charming and not at all fake about it either. 

Joan Fontaine was brilliant as the adventure-seeking Dona St. Columb. The role seemed to fit her like a glove. Basil Rathbone was perfectly slimy too, leaving me to wonder if he had ever played Richard III at any time. That role would have…

I’ll look back on this film in the future as the point in where my love for Olivia de Havilland began. After all, that’s who I came for & in my quest to broaden my horizons beyond my dear Ingrid Bergman, I’ve fallen in love with somebody else too. De Havilland has this power, much like Ingrid Bergman and Barbara Stanwyck, to have your attention from the first second she appears on screen. Even if at the beginning, she’s one of…

Beautiful Italy, beautiful Ingrid to the soundtrack of George Sanders’ crisp bass voice. It sounds like something wonderful but it’s not quite how I’d describe this film. How can a film about the collapsing of a marriage be wonderful, after all. Instead, I’ll leave the praise and long essays about this film to the experts and simply call it brilliant. 

Nothing actually goes on. There are no fireworks, no explosions, not even any tears. Their hard English shells forbid that.…