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Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes60%
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
43 audience votes
Key crew
- Irving PichelDirector
- Gwen BristowWriter
- Max SteinerOriginal Music Composer
- Lenore J. CoffeeScreenplay
Cast
- Claudette ColbertElizabeth Hamilton
- Orson WellesJohn Andrew MacDonald
- George BrentLawrence Hamilton
- Lucile WatsonAunt Jessica Hamilton
- Richard LongDrew Hamilton
- Natalie WoodMargaret Ludwig
- John WengrafDr. Ludwig
- Sonny HoweBrian Hamilton
- Ian WolfeNorton
- Joyce MackenzieCherry Davis
- Jesse GravesAmbrose
- Henry HastingsDaniel