Academy Awards, USA 1936
| Nominated Oscar | Best Music, Score Irvin Talbot (head of departmment)
Score by Ernst Toch.
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Paramount Pictures
Directed by Henry Hathaway
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Universal)
A boy's idyllic childhood in a mansion outside of Paris comes to an end when his mother dies. He is adopted by an uncle and brought to England, leaving behind a childhood sweetheart. As a young adult, he is an architect sent to a country estate to build a horse stable. He falls in love with the married woman who is directing the job, and she with him, little realizing they are the same childhood sweethearts in the opening scenes. Her jealous husband confronts him with a gun but he kills him first and is sentenced to life in prison. Separated from his sweetheart, they are able to meet each other in their dreams, which they share. This goes on for a few decades until she dies. However, she is able to reassure him in another dream that she is waiting for him in heaven. Dreamy romance that gets more and more implausible until an ending that just makes you shake your head and wonder what they were thinking.
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