This is de Havilland's personal favorite of her own movies. She won her first of two Best Actress Oscars for this movie.
The movie starts in London during the Nazi bombings of WW II and then flashes back to Jody's memories as the teen-aged daughter of a small town druggist during WW I.
There is something about this movie that I just don't like. Is it that most of the characters were not likable? Or is it that I personally thought Jody was always selfish to everyone, everywhere? One keeps wondering why she never "got on" with her personal life after giving her son up for adoption.
Is this noble or right?
It comes down to this: having a life full of love and memories or having one full of regrets and disappointments.
For me, she chose the wrong path.
Nothing was ever forced on HER the way she forced herself on her friends.
For me, there was only one truly noble character in this movie, Lord Desham. Only he was not a mercenary. Only he knew what it was like to have lost everything and know that he had wasted so much of his life in its lonely misery.
The movie starts in London during the Nazi bombings of WW II and then flashes back to Jody's memories as the teen-aged daughter of a small town druggist during WW I.
There is something about this movie that I just don't like. Is it that most of the characters were not likable? Or is it that I personally thought Jody was always selfish to everyone, everywhere? One keeps wondering why she never "got on" with her personal life after giving her son up for adoption.
Is this noble or right?
It comes down to this: having a life full of love and memories or having one full of regrets and disappointments.
For me, she chose the wrong path.
Nothing was ever forced on HER the way she forced herself on her friends.
For me, there was only one truly noble character in this movie, Lord Desham. Only he was not a mercenary. Only he knew what it was like to have lost everything and know that he had wasted so much of his life in its lonely misery.