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Memorable, crazy movie

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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Maybe the H. L. Mencken novel makes more sense but I found this filmed version to be a mishmash.Paul Henreid is fair as a bookish failed artist obsessed with a lower-class waitress, played with extreme crudeness and haughtiness by Eleanor Parker. His self-esteem, laid low by a club foot, has left him convinced he deserves no better.I had a problem with the casting and characterization here. It's never the least bit clear what Philip sees in Mildred, who doesn't even try to fake any charm. She's dowdy waiting tables, and a plain Jane to boot! Overlooking the lack of believability, there is a ring of truth to what is being said here about male-female relationships. Beautiful, glamorous, smart Alexis Smith DOES like Philip, but he doesn't appreciate her. "For months I've been starved for beauty!" he complains to her, after, yes, spending months with her. "If you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them," Nora laments, in words that must ring true for every single woman out there today. "If you treat them decently, they make you suffer for it." The story suffers in many tiring plot twists that make Philip out to be a kind of ping-pong ball, bouncing toward Miserable Mildred and then away from her, contingent on whatever abuse she's flinging at the moment. Philip is a very sick person, and so is she. (One pities the baby girl she is raising to face, we can only assume, her same exact fate.) Then we must also sit through Philip's weekly visits to the home of Altheny, played by a repetitious and pedantic Edmund Gwenn. He deems his oldest daughter to be a good match for Philip, and he hints at it incessantly.None of this hangs together very well. And, despite the unlikely marriage proposal, I don't think Philip and the daughter will fare well together. One doesn't transform from being a doormat-in-denial to domestic bliss so magically.But the director would have us believe such claptrap. As if!

Eleanor Parker did a very good job in this 1946 remake of the 1934 Bette Davis classic. Parker portrays an English waitress, Mildred Rogers, with passion, but not with the vigor that Bette Davis showed in the role. Her total rejection scene of Paul Henried was a good one, but again not with the torrid hatred that Davis showed.Paul Henried appears to be stronger than Leslie Howard in the original version. He shows anger at Mildred and even rejects her.Alexis Smith is wasted here as the widowed writer who falls for Henried (Philip) in Paris. She does seem to suddenly fade from his life and the film.A story of a waitress, who not knowing what she really wanted out of life, is mean and vicious to the man who really loved her. He certainly was bonded to her.

***SPOILERS*** Decent re-make of the 1934 film classic that stared Leslie Howard and Bettie Davis about a young man enslaved by the love that he has for a women who has nothing but contempt for him and uses him for her own greedy and selfish purposes.Paul Henreid seems a bit too old as the young artist Philip Cary who gives up art after struggling two years in Paris without being able to sell a single painting. Philip goes back to his native England to take up medicine and become a doctor like his late father. Eleanor Parker does a fine job of acting as the cold and unfeeling young waitress Mildred Rogers who rebuffs poor Philip and then uses him to help herself in the string of tragedies she gets herself into in the course of the movie. Seeing Mildred at a local tea room in London Philip becomes infatuated with her even though she want nothing to do with him. Getting Mildred to go to the theater with him one Satuerday night Philip falls so madly in love with her. Philip is so crazily in love with Mildred that she tells him, just to get him out of her life, one evening thats she's getting married to one of the patrons at the tea room that she's been flirting with; Emil Miller, Richard Nugent. Hurt and dejected Philip starts to overcome his fascination with Mildred and later meets Nora Nesbitt, Alexis Smith, a writer that he knew as a young art student in Paris and develops a loving relationship with her. With everything going fine for the two young lovers all of a sudden Mildred steps right back into Philip's life. Having been thrown out of the house by Mr. Miller and left pregnant by him Mildred wan't Philip back and would do anything to have him accept her back as his lover. Which she never was in the first place. Philip takes Mildred back at the expense of the shocked and hurt Nora who he leaves out in the cold. As the days go by and Philip asks Mildred for her hand in matrimony she go back to her old ways. Mildred starts to abuse him so much that she flirts and snuggles up to his best friend Griffiths, Patric Knowles, right in front of the hurt and humiliated Philip at a neighborhood restaurant.With all the abuse he takes from Mildred and the insecure feelings he has about himself Philips suffer every insult and put-down Mildred throws at him to the point where he at last loses the love that he had for her all this time. One cold and rainy Christmas Eve Philip leaves his apartment, as Mildred in an insane rage totally wrecks it, and goes to see the only people who showed any love or kindness towards him the Athenlys. Who's father Mr. Athenly he treated in the local hospital that he work at.Invited to come back the next day for a Christmas Dinner Philip, broke and homeless, falls victim to pneumonia and almost dies. Later with the help of his friend and fellow doctor Griffiths Philip is brought back to health. Back on his feet and with Mildred out of his life Philip finds the true love that he searched for all of his life but never realized Mr. Athelny's young and beautiful daughter Sally, Jans Paige,who was always in love with him. Later together with Sally and her family Philip puts the broken pieces of his life, and heart, back together. Mildred is later found by Philip at the very hospital that he's a doctor in dying from the lifestyle that she choose to live. Having already having lost her young daughter Mildred dies knowing that the person who could have saved her from this tragedy was the one that she treated like dirt all the time that he loved her. Powerful drama by writer W. Somerset Maugham thats as moving and touching now as it was when it was first published back in 1915 that proves the old saying: "He has the strength of ten because his heart is pure" and thats exactly what Philip Cary had.

This retelling of Somerset Maugham's classic is very handsomely "got up", and features a wonderful performance by the gifted Eleanor Parker as the heartless heartbreaker Mildred Rogers. But Eleanor's go at the role didn't produce quite the same results as it did for Bette Davis twelve years before. However, if it weren't for Davis' triumphant performance, the 1934 version would be just as forgettable as the others that followed. The 1964 take with Kim Novak/Laurence Harvey is certainly the weakest.