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The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

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.

Blistering performances.

Excellent 1944 film with a greatly subdued, but still superior Ida Lupino, finding love in Poland with a count-wonderfully played by Paul Henried.What makes this film so good is that it shows the class distinctions among the Polish-from peasants to aristocracy, the latter unwilling to give up their status even as war beckons.Had this been a comedy, Mary Boland would have stolen the show. The gifted actress, with her high-pitched voice, was wonderful as the woman who takes Lupino to Poland in the former's search to buy antiques.Victor Francen is the embodiment of the aristocracy unwilling to change its ways. I thought by the end that he would have Nazi sympathies, given the type of person he generally played in films.A wonderful patriotic movie filled with commitment, duty and love.

Ida Lupino and cast do very well in a film that is hampered very much by propaganda which really makes it dated now. Because Stalin was our ally when the movie was made, nothing could be mentioned about the fact Warsaw, Poland was being invaded by the Nazi's and the Comunists. The film does not mention another event that happened when Poland was being invaded too. That is the shipment of Polish Jews to Nazi Death Camps and Soviet Siberia Death Camps at the same time during the invasion. While the film is another assembly line Warner Brothers production, the script needs to be redone to tell the real story. The Polish Leader's Speech on the Radio about holding Poland very likely never happened in the way it is presented.The moments presented here deserve to have the real story told as this invasion is one of the darkest moments in human history. Most of the population of Poland was destroyed by 2 of the biggest evils in History. It is sad that Stalin has never received his due for his role in the Jewish Holocast in Eastern Europe.

IDA LUPINO is a British young woman visiting Poland and acting as a companion to MARY BOLAND, a wealthy woman fond of collecting antiques. At an antique shop, Ida runs into PAUL HENRIED, who thinks she works at the store. They meet and fall in love, and Ida discovers that he's a Polish count. He insists on showing her around Warsaw and in a few short days they fall in love and, although Ida has misgivings when she meets his family and fails to pass inspection, they do marry.Then the Nazi invasion of Poland looms over the story for the second half of the film. The script is articulate and literate, dealing as it does with the aristocracy for the most part, but terribly slow-moving and Vincent Sherman's direction fails to give the script the pace it needs to maintain interest.Ida plays a more rational and less intense creature than she usually does and gives an assured performance as the British girl who must adjust to her new husband and his family. NANCY COLEMAN is his regal, spoiled sister, NAZIMOVA is his party-loving mother, and VICTOR FRANCEN is Henried's wealthy uncle, a Count who keeps the family financially solvent.But Poland is unable to avoid falling into Hitler's clutches and the story veers into more serious territory with the advent of war and the decision that Henried must make with regard to Poland under Nazi rule.Summing up: A bit tedious at times, but interesting for the performances of Lupino, Henried, Coleman, Francen, Nazimova, Mary Boland and Franz Waxman's melodramatic score.

The main reason why I was interested in watching this was how a Hollywood movie made in 1944 would handle the invasion of Poland. Afterall the Soviets were now our Allie. Well Hollywood took the easy way out and didn't mention the Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact and the co invasion of Poland by the USSR, it was all a Nazi show. I only watched the first few minutes and than woke up (it was showing at 3-4 am) right at the start of the invasion on what looked to be Ida's and Henried's wedding night. It's a good thing Henried's character didn't get captured by the Soviets as I don't think they took a kind view of aristocrat Polish officers judging by the mass graves that were discovered full of them. Real sappy war propaganda fluff.