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Very best movie i ever watch

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This high-power weeper is notable for its photography. Made shortly after sound arrived in movies, Born to Love has some interesting images courtesy of cinematographer John Mescall. Rapid pullbacks and moving close-ups often look like the camera was mounted on a square-wheeled dolly. When done at a less frantic pace, they're much smoother and easier on our eyes. Mescall's stationary camera images of London's celebration at the end of World War One , complete with an example of his tilted camera style, are the best images in the movie. Film buffs of pre-code talkies will get something out of this very dreary story.

Not uninteresting pre-Code soap suds, wherein Yankee nurse Bennett, in London (nice historical touch: a bus advertising "Chu Chin Chow") meets Captain Joel McCrea, they have a torrid romance and pledge their troth, and while carrying his child she hears he's dead. We know he's not--he's second-billed, and there's an hour to go--but she thinks he is, so she marries Paul Cavanagh on the rebound and we wait for the fireworks that will erupt when McCrea returns. Connie's histrionic- -she gets to love, yell, sob, scream, and put on a phony British accent, even though she's playing American--and Paul Stein's camera likes to linger on her overemoting. But Joel McCrea was certainly the personification of solid masculine American values circa 1918 or 1931, and his sincere underplaying nicely complements her overplaying. The screenplay doesn't hate her for having a child out of wedlock, and the happy ending isn't that happy. So, by 1931 standards, it's an adult movie. Just not a very good one.

Another one of the early films made by Bennett and McCrae. Although SHE gets top billing in this one, since she had been working in silents for a few years already. McCrae looks so young, thin, and energetic, as this is one of his earlier, credited roles. It starts as soldier Barry (McCrae) meets nurse Doris (Bennett) during WW I in Britain. They hit it off... they have it off, and soldier Barry goes off to war. This was made just a few years before they enforced any "decency code", so things are made pretty clear without resorting to too much innuendo. The story starts out quite romantic, but it IS wartime, and when Barry is presumed dead, Doris marries another soldier (Paul Cavanagh). When Barry returns, the trouble begins, partly due to the complicated rules for divorce to be granted at the time. and did you SEE the dress Constance was wearing when she is called to the phone and finds out he is still alive?? wacky. Doris lives on her own after the divorce, and visits the baby, but won't move in with Barry. Then the film takes quite a left turn; Doris sees the baby is deceased, and goes over the edge. She heads home to find that Barry is there waiting for her, but certainly a bittersweet ending. Quite a shocker, right at the end of the story. On the plus side, she's back with her original love. According to wikipedia, director Paul Stein had been born in Austria, moved to Hollywood, and later became a Brit citizen in 1938. He also directed "Born to Love", which also shows now and then on TCM. It's pretty good, for an early talkie, but has its ups and downs. More interesting as an early work for McCrae and Bennett.

They don't make 'em like this anymore. But the weeper genre was popular with the ladies once upon a time, and Bennett led the pack of martyrs. Her suffering in Born to Love is all the sadder because it could have been so easily avoided if she had just answered her husband's questions frankly and fully. But not Bennett. Her evasiveness followed by her unforgivably cruel words turned this kindly man's love for her into hate. But still, she didn't deserve what she got.Variety's reviewer wrote of the plot, "Constance Bennett is ruined again and has another baby" and "How the women love it, that sobbing stuff." Bennett's hand-wringing and heavy emoting was criticized, but I thought her acting was exactly how her character would respond to the shocks the script writers threw at her. Regardless, Variety saw the film's box-office potential, "Bennett isn't much of an actress here but still drawing as ever because of this story." Only a year after this huge hit, the drawing power of Bennett and stories like Born to Love would lose favor with fickle moviegoers, and she and her producers were unable to keep her career from sliding downhill until Topper reinvented her as a sophisticated comedienne.This was Joel McCrea's first (of 4) teamings with Bennett as well as his first major role. He's wonderful to watch and Bennett's undying love for him is believable. Cavanaugh is excellent and manages to be sympathetic even while being cold-hearted and vengeful.