Monday, September 30, 2019

Casanova Brown (1944)


Academy Awards, USA 1945

Nominee
Oscar
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
Perry Ferguson
Julia Heron
Best Sound, Recording
Thomas T. Moulton (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Arthur Lange

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Sam Wood
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, ClassicFlix)

Gary Cooper is the "Casanova" of the title, bouncing around between several women. There is the one in the small town in which he arrives by train to start the film. Then there is another one back in the big city that we learn about in a flashback. Another one pops up unexpectedly later on. He marries, or intends to marry, all three of them at one point. A baby finally forces him to make the right choice, but not until after he kidnaps it! Ludicrous story with Cooper in one of his sappiest roles. 

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