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In my family a great movie is one where you come out of the theatre all in tears. This is a great movie. All the sorrows and pathos of your day-to-day existence are purged in this movie. Nothing you may complain about will equal Mrs. Malik's sorrow of losing her family and getting so close to finding her child Karel. The last scene where she leaves for Palestine (pre-1948 Israel) and ....... yes there he is!!! Already I am sniffling as I write this. You will need at least one full box of Kleenex for this if not two. Aline MacMahon is so good in this film. Montgomery Clift is a warmhearted GI that we remember from WWII (The Big One, guys). Wendel Corey is an excellent support. Jarmila Novotna was a great Czech opera singer at the Met and she shines in this film. But Ivan Jandl will rip your heart out with those big blue eyes of his - oy!! See it and do not be ashamed to leave the theatre in tears. A lovely film, so enjoy!!

A very good comedy with a superb supporting cast: Joan Davis, Mischa Auer, Evelyn Ankers (Queen of the Screamers), The Andrews Sisters and Ted Lewis. Where else can you see Ted Lewis and Chester Davis in the inimitable "Me and My Shadow" routine? "Is Everybody Happy" and "When My Baby Smiles at Me" are sooo campy!! The Andrews Sisters are fantastic as always with "Down by the Banks of the Ohio" and "Aurora" A & C always had great supporting entertainment to take up the slack and this movie has some of the best. Joan Davis is hilarious as always.Richard Carlsen is a monumental bore. The candle scene is right next to "Who's on First" in terms of the A & C classic routines You never get tired of this zany classic!

A good film with a nice flow. The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (Szabo, Istvan) is clearly determined to find out what he can about his father who died young.All he knows is that he was a doctor and perhaps he was an honoured victim of fascism. He never really finds out but his relationship with his mother, his friends and his Jewish girl friend (of course she has to be Jewish - he is the sheygetz) will make him totally independent of this need to find all about Apa or Father. The movie shows a film being made involving the Holocaust and it is a terrific sequence making the extras walk back and forth and back and forth over the bridge to get them miserable and exhausted - an original idea. This film is good and I have seen it several times without being bored.