The Enchanted Cottage

What a shameful remake. Doesn't even come close. The acting is so bad. Nothing enchanting about this movie. The 1945 original is a masterpiece in every way.

This is a film so bad that you can imagine it one day having a large cult following. It proceeds from one improbability to another with an almost charming nonchalance, as if to say,"Oh, never mind, you know what we mean." It is so filled with non-sequiturs that the occasional sequitur seems wandering and lost. The upshot of this is that the film keeps you so befuddled that you find yourself sticking around to see if it will finally unravel itself. It doesn't. It just smiles at the end and says, "So there you have it."

It is hard to imagine the director's excuse, given that he had the model of the successful 1945 film in front of him. Actually the film lists seven directors. It is hard to decide whether this was six too many or seven too many.

THIS ...... is the best they can do .... Oh My God...!!

Everything in this is poor .... casting...acting.... music ..... And its poor on its own ....Then when you put it against the 1945 version with Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young and Herbert Marshall ....Music by Roy Webb ....You realize just how pitiful it is....!!!

NONE of the romance that exudes the 1945 version is translated in this film....No matter how sentimental or sappy you may think the 45 version is .... It does what it was meant to do ... It ss a fantasy drama ... and when you go outside of this idea you lose the sweeping emotion that the story intends to deliver...

If a studio is going to commit to a remake of this film ...... They better make a much more substantial commitment than THIS...!!!

Better yet ... DON'T remake this movie .... it probably belongs in a different time anyway.

I had hopes for this movie. It's relatively clean and the premise is sweet. But, ugh, it is terrible. The acting is so bad, the makeup is horrible, that it asks the viewer to suspend way too much reality to make it watchable. The original was probably charming. This remake is a train wreck. What a shame that it was one of Richard Hatch's last films before his passing.

Someone died and then some people are at the door. All too quick too and unemotional and not making any sense. Gave it away.