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I'll Be Seeing You
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Directed By: William Dieterle, George Cukor
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Theatrical Release: January 5, 1945
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully
Oscar(r) winner* Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten top a stellar cast in this tender wartimelove story about two troubled strangers who meet by chance and try to crowd a lifetime of love and laughter into eight days. "Studded with brilliant performances" (Variety), I'll Be Seeing You "manages to ambush your emotions and hasten your heart beats" (Hollywood Citizen-News). After serving half of a prison sentence for accidental manslaughter, Mary Marshall (Rogers) is allowed a holiday furlough to visit her family. Keeping her history a secret, she falls in love with a kindhearted GI (Cotten) who's struggling to overcome shell shock. Both long for a normal life. But can they have it if he learns the truth about her? *1940: Actress, Kitty Foyle
User Submitted I'll Be Seeing You Reviews
June 25, 2008
Lost in the Archives of Time
My mother used to talk about this movie when I was younger, and how she loved it. I finally found it on Amazon, purchased it, and invited her to watch with me. It has the look and feel of the old war (the Big One)with a slightly different twist--Ginger Rogers is a murderer on Christmas furlough. Shirley Temple is classic Shirley--neither impressive nor instrumental to the plot--as the teenaged daughter of Ginger's relatives. Joseph Cotten, suffering from battle fatigue, predictably falls for Ginger, rescuing her from a vicious dog and relying on her image to pull him through a perspiration-packed relapse. "I'll Be Seeing You" comes off more as a made-for-television movie, but because the people in the movie are major stars, they brighten the screen more than the lackluster plot could ever do. Overall, I enjoyed the movie, the company, and the quiet one hour and twenty-five minutes spent. I would recommend it for those who are nostalgic, but I don't believe it would stand up for the younger generation that craves blood, violence and sex on every frame.
December 22, 2007
Bushka
Brings back family when I was growing up.Nice to have better times why back when!!!!!
November 26, 2007
Outstanding Love Story Set At Christmas
Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten are two troubled souls who meet on a train shortly before Christmas. It is wartime and he is a shell-shocked soldier on furlough while she is on holiday furlough from prison where she has been serving a sentence for accidental manslaughter. Neither is confident enough to share their own story, but they are attracted to each other and begin a whirlwind romance filled with love, laughter, and the normalcy they are both desperate to regain.
All good things must come to an end, and their furloughs are no exception. Will they be able to reveal their deepest secrets? Can true love find a way to work through the hurt and sadness? Can each accept the other's past and uncertain future?
This is an extraordinary movie and a wonderful love story filled with wholesome family life, compassionate characters, and a most realistic look at the battle fatigue experienced by soldiers. The stellar cast includes a teenage Shirley Temple and Spring Byington in her pre-December Bride days. For those of us who wish they still made movies like they used to, this is one to treasure.
October 22, 2007
sweet romance
This is an above average believable romantic movie with an original storyline including a few surprises along the way. All the actors turn in strong perfomances. Even Shirley Temple is well cast. I especially recommend this movie for all fans of Joseph Cotton and Ginger Rogers. This may be Ms Roger's best dramatic role.
July 19, 2007
I'll Be Seeing You CD
For very nostalgic reasons, I was thrilled when I saw that the CD of "I'll Be Seeing You" was available and at a very reasonable price. I am over-joyed with the product and have viewed it several times since receiving it. The quality of the CD is great; appreciated the timely deliverance of it. Overall, a satisfying experience with [...]. Thank you so very much.
January 5, 2007
How did this movie get missed?
Sometimes great works simply fall through the cracks and people don't notice them - well, this is one of them.
In this war-time drama, Ginger Rogers plays a woman who is let out of jail to rejoin her uncles and cousin for Christmas. Only for Christmas. On the train, she meets a soldier with war traumas, Joseph Cotten. As he descends on the same stop, a series of events will lead to a gentle, often heartwarming closeness between the two, shadowed by the deceits both at first did not reveal. The movie finale should rank among the best Christmas movie endings ever. it's also an added bonus to watch the teen Shirley Temple as the cousin, if you're a movie buff.
July 7, 2006
Tame romance
As good as he is, I've yet to see Joseph Cotten in a truly animated role. (NIAGARA is perhaps his most dramatic.) Zachary Morgan (Cotten) is a socially inert, shell-shocked, purple hearted, sergeant wondering what to do during an 8-day furlough from an army psychiatric hospital. On a train to Pinehill, he meets Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers), lonely, downhearted manslaughter convict on a Christmas furlough from prison. Despite awkward moments initiated by flashbacks, their attraction grows. Zach openly confides secrets to Mary, though she feels reciprocation will bring condemnation. As Zach builds the courage to propose marriage, Mary recoils. Her teenage cousin Barbara Marshall (Shirley Temple) innocently reveals Mary's circumstances to Zach. He then must decide how to cope with the revelation.
I'LL BE SEEING YOU is definitely not a Rogers musical comedy nor is it a typical Cotten noir. Action is isolated to a dog encounter during an evening stroll. The only dancing by Rogers and Temple is the waltz at a New Year's celebration. Expect singing? There's a family Christmas carol around the dinner table. The dialogue isn't particularly clever but genuine. I'LL BE SEEING YOU is a rather tame linear drama inspiring hope while delivering a message about acceptance, honesty, and chastity that may well appeal to romantic audiences or those scarred by war or other personal adversities. Image quality is very good. With an all-star cast, mediocre plot and no DVD extras, I rate the movie 3.5 stars (rounded to 4).
Movie quote: "You have to get used to accepting what you think is second best, and then you find out it's first best after all."
February 18, 2006
I'LL be seeing you
This movie is one of the movie, you wish they still made,but
they don't anymore. There isn't any cursing, sex or violences
in it. It is the kind of movie, you can take the family to see.It
relates the plight of two lonely people, who fall in love,regardless of their problems. He is a shell shock soldier
and she is on a Christmas vacation from prison and has to return
after the Holidays.
Joseph Cotten and Ginger Rogers and the supporting cast are all
excellent in this film. I highly recommend it.
January 13, 2006
a love story undiminished by time
An immortal wartime romance with Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten, I'LL BE SEEING YOU remains one of the most beloved films of the era. Rogers plays Mary Marshall, a female ex-con on parole, who meets by chance the handsome yet severely shell-shocked soldier Zachary Morgan (Cotten). Their romance plays out against the odds; two damaged people who find comfort and understanding in each other.
Based on the radio play "Double Furlough" by Charles Martin, the screenplay by Marion Parsonnet amiably showcases Rogers and Cotten in some of their most vivid and unguarded work. With Shirley Temple, Spring Byington (who had previously co-starred in 1940's "The Blue Bird"), Chill Wills and Tom Tully.
September 2, 2005
I"ll be seeing you
Great wartime story with so much heart. They don't make them like this anymore. Ginger Rogers plays a different kind of role then you're use to seeing and she pulls it off great.
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