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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This rarely rises above a ho hum take on the 'time traveller' genre and just off the top of my head I can think of several superior examples. It may be that my lifelong indifference/dislike of Ann Blyth plays a part; I find it inconceivable that anyone, let alone Tyrone Power could prefer Blyth over Beatrice Campbell but on the other hand, like the man said, to each his own. To my mind Power fails to convince as a man so obsessed with the past that he will literally move heaven and earth to become a part of it whilst the schtick of the love object from the past returning in a modern-day counterpart has been done to death (sorry), think Rhonda Fleming in A Yankee At King Arthur's court, released a scant two years before this one. Passable - just.

I saw the very end of this movie when I was very young, late 1960s, and it has kind of haunted me ever since, and yet, I have never seen it aired on TV ever again. I have read that it has "rights" issues, my god, who could have issues over a movie that was made over 50 years ago? This film should be committed to DVD and allowed out of the vault so it can be enjoyed again. I would like to see the whole film from the beginning before I am too old to care anymore. There are so many garbage movies on TV and in the theaters now that have no mystery or class to them, and yet we have gems like this film locked up in vaults, never to be seen or heard again. To keep films locked aways due to rights disputes is disgraceful. To whomever is responsible for keeping this film from being enjoyed by the public, please, release this film! All I saw of this film was the last act of the heroine, Ann Blyth, saying goodbye to Tyrone Power and telling him that she will let him know that it was not a dream by leaving him a sign to find in the future and so she...Oh, well, I won't spoil the ending...we have to see the film again to find out how Tyrone Power proves he was in the past. For a film's final 20 minutes to have had such an impact on an 8 year old girl, it had to have been one heck of a film and would be well worth releasing. I want to know how Tyrone Power went back in time, and why he could not stay, or chose to not stay. The acting and dialogue of films made in that era are amazing. I recently saw Rebecca on cable, finally, because guess what, it's next to impossible to find Rebecca on DVD. Yet another movie I either only saw the very beginning, or the very end, and never the whole film all the way through.

This is a powerful and disturbing film. Its fantasy-for-the-sake-of-idea storyline sends a man back in time to the days of Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and the England of the bygone era. The time traveling scientist is played most ably by Tyrone Power. He falls in love back in time, runs afoul of those who wonder how he can know the future, and is compelled to return to his own era. This film was adapted from John Balderston's eerie play "Berkeley Square" by Ranald Macdougall. The director of this beautiful; B/W dramatic gem was Roy Baker. In the cast along with Power were Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Kathleen Byron, Beatrice Capmbell, Irene Browne, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer, Ronald Adam, Robert Atkins, Alex McCrindle, Ronald Simpson and many more. Whenever the time traveler makes an error in tenses, the 18th Century denizens grow afraid of him, wondering if he is a witch or a madman. But he is able to see and converse with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Boswell and others; and the time traveler returns home to an even stranger ending than he had imagined--or that the viewers could have guessed. The film boasts very fine music by William Alwyn, wonderful costumes by Margaret Furse and art direction by C.P. Norman that is a delight to behold. This is a powerful production, unforgettable, and a bit unusual until one gets used to it. The B/W sets look densely photographed and very convincing; for some reason, the feature hard-to-find in this country but not to be missed if you get the opportunity. Also known as "The House On the Square".

Like many I haven't seen this movie in years, but it gave me a lasting impression. Thing I remembered the most is when the gal in the past (Ann Blyth) knew that Tyrone was going back to the future (where have I heard that phrase before?) she told him that she would have the letters in her tombstone cut deep so that he could read them in the future. When he returned to the future (his present) he went to the cemetery and found her tombstone, old and fading, but still marked as she had promised. Touching, and sad. Then later, lo and behold, the spitting image of her appears in his present and he has a chance to "renew" his love. Great movie, in the great old black and white format. You could categorize it as the forerunner of Somewhere in Time, with Jane Seymour appearing as possibly the loveliest woman in film.