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Best movie of this year hands down!

The first must-see film of the year.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I'll cut right to the chase..."Adam and Evalyn" is a rather creepy film. Perhaps you won't see it that way, but the relationship between the two main characters just seemed bizarre and a bit wrong.When the film begins, Evalyn (Jean Simmons) is a young lady who grew up in an orphanage and now is one of the teachers. She is, however, very immature--and she lives in a dreamworld where her loving father FINALLY comes to rescue her from this place. But she hasn't seen him in so long she doesn't even know who he is or what he looks like. Yet, she keeps telling everyone that her father is soon coming for her. Sad, actually. Her father is actually a ne'er-do- well jockey and although he plans on getting the daughter, it never seems to happen. When the father is killed, as he's dying he gets his friend, Adam (Stewart Granger) to promise to get the daughter.Now here is a HUGE problem with the story. You'd think any semi- sane man would go to the daughter and say "Your father has died. I am your godfather and am going to have you come live with me". Well, instead, he cannot bring himself to tell her the truth(???) and she thinks he's her father. Huh? EVENTUALLY, someone else goes to Evalyn and tells her the truth. Soon after, Evalyn is sent off to a finishing school in Switzerland or Boise or somewhere. When she arrives back to Adam's home, she is now full of grace, poise and looks like a woman. Now, Adam finds himself attracted to her. Now considering the age difference, his relationship with her and that she once thought he was her dad, doesn't this all seem super-creepy?!The bottom line is that with a small re-write this film could have been a nice romance. The age difference alone wasn't a problem (after all, the actors were married in real life and were well over a decade different age-wise)--the relationship and writing were the problem. Easy to skip.

The men in this picture are gamblers and killers. They play dirty and resort to violence. The women who associate with them do not seem to be much better. But despite all this, the characters still manage to exhibit a proper manner of behaving (at least on the surface). In an ironic way, that serves to make this type of story work. Maybe, it is because such composure lends itself perfectly to spoofing the life of hardened criminals. And ultimately, that is exactly what this film seems to be: a sharp satire.It comes off rather smoothly, too, thanks to the wonderful chemistry of the two leads: Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons (married in real life). Check these two performers out in YOUNG BESS and in FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG, entirely different productions that indicate if anything their tremendous range and talent.

Enjoyed this film which I had my doubts about until I viewed the great acting of Jean Simmons, (Evelyn Wallace) and Stewart Granger, (Adam Black). This story is about a young girl Evelyn who lives in an orphanage and receives letters from her father telling her he is going to visit her someday and take her home where he raises horses. However, this is really not her father but a good friend of her father's Adam Black. Evelyn's father passes away and he asks Adam to take care of his daughter and he promises to look after her. There are very funny scenes and some very dramatic moments along with many lies which have been told and have to be explained to poor Evelyn Wallace. In real life, Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger were married and had a child. Great Classic film from 1949, enjoy.

Possible spoilers: I used to think that cute and winsome comedies were a Hollywood specialty, but after seeing "Adam and Evelyne" I realised the British can do them too. Stewart Granger plays Adam, a professional gambler. Jean Simmons plays Evelyne, the innocent orphan he adopts. About fifteen minutes into the film it becomes easy to predict how everything is going to turn out - Evelyne will grow up, she and Adam will fall in love, and after reforming him, she will marry him. Not surprisingly, Stewart and Simmons sail through their parts. Neither made heavy demands upon the actors. Stewart was required to be suave and charming, while Simmons radiated naive innocence.Still, I have seen worse movies. There was nothing actually offensive or irritating in "Adam and Evelyne", nor was it slow moving or boring. The obligatory scene where Adam shows Evelyne the sights of the town was cleverly handled. Instead of the standard montage of famous sights, intercut with Evelyne's enraptured face, we saw a sequence of scenes depicting Evelyne's energetic and Adam's increasingly weary *feet*, with the characters' dialogue as voiceover. And if nothing else the sets and costumes were fun to watch.