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This is a powerful and disturbing film. Its fantasy-for-the-sake-of-idea storyline sends a man back in time to the days of Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and the England of the bygone era. The time traveling scientist is played most ably by Tyrone Power. He falls in love back in time, runs afoul of those who wonder how he can know the future, and is compelled to return to his own era. This film was adapted from John Balderston's eerie play "Berkeley Square" by Ranald Macdougall. The director of this beautiful; B/W dramatic gem was Roy Baker. In the cast along with Power were Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Kathleen Byron, Beatrice Capmbell, Irene Browne, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer, Ronald Adam, Robert Atkins, Alex McCrindle, Ronald Simpson and many more. Whenever the time traveler makes an error in tenses, the 18th Century denizens grow afraid of him, wondering if he is a witch or a madman. But he is able to see and converse with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Boswell and others; and the time traveler returns home to an even stranger ending than he had imagined--or that the viewers could have guessed. The film boasts very fine music by William Alwyn, wonderful costumes by Margaret Furse and art direction by C.P. Norman that is a delight to behold. This is a powerful production, unforgettable, and a bit unusual until one gets used to it. The B/W sets look densely photographed and very convincing; for some reason, the feature hard-to-find in this country but not to be missed if you get the opportunity. Also known as "The House On the Square".

I saw this before I saw Somewhere in Time and it was very unique for its time with the change from black and white to color. I felt the story was very excellent and later just as good as (the modernized remake), all things considered. Of course, I'm somewhat more partial to Jane Syemour vis-a-vis Ann Blythe. I have not had the privilege of seeing the "Berkely Square" version. I was fortunate enough to view this as "I'll Never Forget You" on TV quite some time ago. I forget the Movie Program but I was very disappointed to find out it was not available in any version on VHS or DVD. I place this romantic version along side of another favorite of mine, i.e. " Luck of The Irish" also starring Tyrone Power.

This was one of the best 'love story' movies that I remember when I was a teen. I haven't seen this movie also in about 40 plus years. I hope somewhere that a copy was saved and released as a DVD. I think it was one of Tyrone Powers great love stories and the cast was excellent to match. I have wanted to see this movie so many times and looked in so many places to try and find a way to either see it again or obtain some sort of copy. I'd like to think that before I drop dead I would like to be able to see this movie one last time. I hope again that it hasn't been lost forever. The movie has already been described by others at IMDb. I wish more movies were made like this one and we had more actors like the ones in this movie. I remember seeing it on a black and white TV and being brought to tears after watching it on the Late show in NYC. One thing I remember about this movie was the strong love between Ann Blyth and Tyrone Power and how one could actually die of heart break.

This movie is called " I'll never forget you. " The director is Roy Ward Baker and his finish product does a remarkable job of it becoming a Masterpiece. The story however could have been selected from those strange episodes of 'The Twilight Zone'. It concerns a modern day American scientist named Peter Standish (Tyrone Power) who not only works on a project dealing with Nuclear energy, but also inherits an early English house set in the fashionable part of Londan. Once there he has a over powering feeling of deja vu and actually believes he has lived there before. Believeing he is the direct descendant of his father, he confides in his best friend Roger Forsyth (Michael Rennie) that he will travel back to the past. Dismissing the possibility, Roger invites Peter to stay with him for a vacation, when he abruptly disappears and reappears as his ancestor in 1784 A.D. During his absence Peter takes the place of his ancestor and enjoys all the sights and experiences of England which becomes more dangerous the longer he remains. The movie itself becomes a delightful dream but one which evolves into a nightmare. This is a must film for Tyrone power fans and is further enhanced with the talents of Michael Rennie. All in all a Classic film for many a collector. ****

Fox owned this property, as it was done as Berkeley Square in 1933. In 1950, it was remade for Tyrone Power, co-starring Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, and Dennis Price.

This film, along with Marie Antoinette, were in the top ten of all films on TCM that viewers requested be put out on DVD. It finally happened with the Tyrone Power Matinée Idol set, released in 2008.

Power plays Peter Standish, a scientist obsessed with the past. He knows from a diary that he is destined to go there and switch places with his ancestor of the same name, but he doesn't know how it will happen. During a thunder and lightning storm, he winds up outside his house, but it is now 18th century London.

Peter has arrived from America to marry Kate Pettigrew, but instead falls for her sister Helen. Helen is the only person the Standish of the future knows nothing about. She was never mentioned in any of his research.

Not only is 18th Century London not the peaceful, gentle place he imagined, but as he predicts certain things or knows things he shouldn't, people become frightened of him. The only one not afraid of him is Helen. Peter knows he has to go back to the future, but he wants to stay with Helen.

This is a lovely fantasy about going back to the past, a subject authors have always been interested in. And, like the main character in "Paris at Midnight," the past isn't all it was cracked up to be.

The present in this film is in black and white, and the future is in god-awful color - this film is not restored. Power looks terrific in black and white, and I have seen him in color many, many times, and he always looked fantastic.

However, in this film, he looks pasty - that may have been a deliberate choice because he's not really of the time, as Ann Blyth looks very beautiful.

Power had to shave two or three times a day when he was filming, and for some reason, he didn't do that in the past section of the film.

Since I had seen him so many times and he was always clean-shaven except when the role called for something else, I found it distracting.

Power and Blyth both give very good, sensitive performances. Rennie is completely wasted -- he must have done the film to fulfill his contract with 20th Century Fox -- but he is good also.

The last time I saw this film before now was when I was a child, and I never forgot it. It's a beautiful story that contains some important lessons: love is eternal, and we're where we're supposed to be.

I too saw this film, many years ago, when I was in the Royal Air Force in Germany (circa 1957) and remember it as a very original film, beginning and ending filmed in black and white, which in itself is unusual, but was ideal for this type of film. Since the advent of both DVDs and videos, I have constantly looked to see if it is available for purchase, but as yet, it isn't. I am really astonished at this, because, for a "time travel" film, this must rate as one of the better ones, with a high quality cast. It compares very favourably with "A Moment In Time", which has been shown on British television, but A House In The Square certainly hasn't, in recent years. If anyone knows if there are any plans to either show it, or a DVD (Region 2) is to be released, please let me know

I am generally wary of films with historical subjects (e.g. Unlike the majority of viewers I find 'Ben-Hur' terrible), but this one disappointed me less than some others. Pros: The picture is well acted and the sets are extraordinary. Both the interior of houses and the streets of 1784-London look absolutely convincing: the contrast of elegance and dirt, the mud, the lack of gutters and street lighting etc. On top of that brutality, child labour and so on - really convincing. All this is much better done than in any twenty-first century British period drama I have seen. I also liked the idea to show the twentieth-century scenes in black-and-white and the eighteenth-century ones in colour. Cons: The whole premise did not convince me, and I don't mean the time travelling bit. It is a fantasy film, after all. But that Tyrone Power is accused of insanity because he experiments with electricity and steam power is absurd. This is supposed to be 1784. Steam engines had been used in Cornish and Welsh mines for almost a century, Benjamin Franklin had experimented with electricity decades earlier, and Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta were just then on the point of major breakthroughs (battery power etc.). All in all eighteenth century Britain was fairly tolerant of excentrics; I guess Power would have had a good chance of getting away with his experiments, even of being admired. A minor point is that I found the music terrible. On balance, I guess for me the pros of this picture outweigh the cons, but not by much.

An American nuclear scientist (Tyrone Power) living in London is transported back in time 200 years to his same family London town house and comes into contact with his own ancestors. His crazy ideas about the future are feared, but while there he also falls in love (Ann Blyth).

An interesting blend of romantic costumer and science-fiction in a film that recalls many similarly themed later films such as THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE (2009) and ABOUT TIME (2013) among others which in itself is a remake of BERKELEY SQUARE (1933). The main draw of the film is the switch from black and white in the modern sequences switching to colour in the 18th century scenes. A British-American co-production, in the UK it's titled I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU.

I saw this movie in 1951, when I was seven years old. Because several scenes remained engraved on my mind, years later, when I recalled those scenes, I was able to identify the stars (Tyrone Power and Ann Blythe). Heaven knows how I remembered the name of the movie. I am DYING to see it again because of the powerful impression it made on me as a little girl. I scour the TV Guide regularly, but so far no luck. Does anyone have any idea who owns this movie? I keep hoping Turner will find it in some lot of films he buys and show it on his TCM station.

Tyrone Power is "Standish", a scientist determined to prove that time travel is possible. Miraculously, he manages to get himself back to 18th Century London where his natural charms, and his impressive knowledge of, what for him is history, but for them day to day life quickly establishes him as a social attraction. In his new dimension, he also manages to fall in love with Ann Blyth ("Helen") but before anything can come of it, he manages to irritate the doyenne of British society - the Duchess of Devonshire (Kathleen Byron) and this begins to bring suspicion about who he is and where/when he came from. Needless to say, his explanations fall on sceptically deaf ears and he must flee back to his own time before incarceration in an asylum beckons. It's interesting for a few reasons - not least the older Georgian Engand scenes are in sumptuous colour, the more modern in black and white - and the ending is really quite a coup for director Roy Baker as it is quite poignant, and rather unexpected. Power is engaging in his dual role, as is the foppish Dennis Price who is continually putting his "boot in his mouth". We have just the one scene with the usually menacing Byron's glamorous Duchess, which is a shame and Raymond Huntley and Felix Aylmer are adequate as his denouncers. Sadly, for me, Ann Blyth is just to simpering. She always reminded me of Joan Greenwood - just without the charisma. Here, she offers little beyond her obvious good looks. Still, it's a good Vernian-style fantasy that has held up remarkably well.

Tyrone Power is an American nuclear physicist disenchanted with the world he has helped create. He is in London, where he has inherited a house on Berkeley Square, from an ancestor whose portrait, still hung there, looks exactly like him. He has read the man's diary, and developed the fancy that he will go back in time and take that man's place for a while, which is exactly what happens.

This remake of Berkeley Square was shot in England by the reliable Roy Ward Baker, and has a fine British cast. Besides also visiting American co-star Ann Blyth, it boasts appearances by Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron, and Felix Aylmer. Its themes are the intense, unfulfilled romance between Tower and Miss Blyth, and the near-barbaric superstition, society, and conditions of the 18th Century, subjects near and dear to the hearts of post-War Americans, especially those of 20th Century-Fox, which produced several films about this time in Britain to use profits blocked by then-current British regulations. Although the endpieces in modern London are shot in crisp black and white, cinematographer Georges Perinal's brilliant color portratit of 18th-Century London is an especial treat, particularly the street scenes.

Like many I haven't seen this movie in years, but it gave me a lasting impression. Thing I remembered the most is when the gal in the past (Ann Blyth) knew that Tyrone was going back to the future (where have I heard that phrase before?) she told him that she would have the letters in her tombstone cut deep so that he could read them in the future. When he returned to the future (his present) he went to the cemetery and found her tombstone, old and fading, but still marked as she had promised. Touching, and sad. Then later, lo and behold, the spitting image of her appears in his present and he has a chance to "renew" his love. Great movie, in the great old black and white format. You could categorize it as the forerunner of Somewhere in Time, with Jane Seymour appearing as possibly the loveliest woman in film.

Not an Oscar contender but still a very satisfactory film,with a great British supporting cast. I saw the play, back in WW2 and it is relatively faithful.My wife is a great Tyrone Power fan and this is her favourite. I seem to remember seeing it on tv way back but have not seen it recently. Is this yet another of those "lost films"?

I'll Never Forget You (1951) : Brief Review -

Decades before time-breaking sci-fi giants like Back To The Future, Arrival, Mirage, and Tenet. I'll start by saying, I'll Never Forget You is an underrated gem. Now that I have liked this film, I am damn sure I'll like its original version, "Berkeley Square" (1933), too. I'll catch it very soon, I promise. We have seen more than 10p films on time travel, time machines, and other such formulas in the last 7-8 decades, and out of them, hardly 5 or 6 have actually had an impact. The best has to be Back To The Future, a timeless classic, and the last (so far) has to be Nolan's Tenet (2020). To be honest, I don't give a damn about other flicks. I'll Never Forget You was a new formula for its time, as was Berkeley Square. I should give it to the 30s flick more than the 50s adaptation because cinema was more challenging and difficult in the 30s-the beginning of talkies. The musical fantasy classic "The Wizard of OZ" (1939) used the same technique of black and white frames in the beginning and the ending scenes, while the rest of the film is in colour. For Berkeley Square, it was not possible, so I'll Never Forget You doesn't let you forget it so easily. The film is about a 20th-century American atomic scientist who is transported to the 18th century. With him knowing the future and many unknown things, he becomes a famous personality, but that's what keeps him away from the closed ones. Supposed to be married and have children with Kate, he falls in love with his cousin. But he has to leave her because he cannot challenge the future or what has already happened in the past. Expectedly, he returns, but there is a twist to his passionate love story at the end, and it's quite emotional too. Tyrone Powers and Ann Blyth's chemistry feels lovable in gorgeous colours. Roy Ward Baker's attempt is simply pathbreaking and deserves more attention. A slight push in the climax, and this would have been a groundbreaking cult film.

RATING - 7.5/10*

By - #samthebestest.

An entertaining, if slight, escapist, time-travel tale which sees Tyrone Power star as an American scientist named Peter Standish with English familial connections, temporarily based in post-war London helping with research into nuclear physics. His lodgings just happen to be at the old town house where 140 years or so ago, his ancestor of the same name came over from America to marry the rich daughter of his aunt. The house and its contents still look pretty much as they used to, while prominently placed on the wall is a portrait of his old namesake and when Power uncovers mementoes from those times, including his relation's old diary, he starts to feel a supernatural connection to the place, somehow drawing him back to the past.

Sure enough, it only takes a convenient lightning bolt to engineer a big old switcheroo and swap the two Peters in time. From there, the film concentrates on what happens to modern day Peter's tribulations back in the Georgian era where he vainly tries to break the prime directive of time travel (if he'd gone on a little further in time and watched a few episodes of "Star Trek TNG" he'd have known not to even try!) by trying to advance man's scientific knowledge to benefit the poor, along the way falling out of love with his intended bride and into it with her more sympathetic sister, unfortunately incurring the enmity of her own older, sceptical fiancé, who seeks to have him carted off as insane to the local asylum. How all this resolves itself, only time, quite literally, will tell.

This was undemanding, far-fetched entertainment, even if the story got a bit muddled at times and in fact might have worked better if both sides of the time switch had been shown. Power coasts through his dual-roles, the most difficulty he probably had was fitting into the tight breeches of early 18th century fashion. The one arresting if hardly original device used in the direction was the Oz-like switch from black and white for the present day scenes to colour for those of the past.

I'm partial to a bit of time-travel entertainment, but being honest, this improbable yarn merely passed the time rather than made it fly.

Based on John L. Balderston play Berkeley square that was also loosely based on Henry James unfinished novel The sense of the past and a remake of the 1933 film of the same title starring Leslie Howard. The movie begins almost as a sci-fi film in a laboratory where scientifics Michael Rennie and Tyrone Power work doing atomic tests and follows as a mystery noir when they arrive to Power old XVIII mansion in Berkeley square. There, watching the surprising similarity between a Power XVIII century ancestor's portrait and he, he begans to explain to his friend a theory about returning to XVIII century, "the age of reason, of dignity and grace, of quietness and peace", as he says. As Rennie leaves the house a thunderstorm falls and time travel begins... As the movie moves on we have a glimpse of what XVIII century really was aside of Power romanticized notions: an obscure time, full of social injustices, children work and misery as well as the illustrated era that produced men like Joshua Reynolds, dr. Johnson and James Boswell. But how did the bad things have changed if progress advances arrived sooner than they really did?

Although this "historical" part of the story is not enough developed in favor of a love story, the film presents an interesting reflection about past times looking better than they really were. Authenticity is captured by accurated sets of XVIII London (reconstructed in London Denham studios) show a dirty, poor city with enormous social and class gaps. Even the "smell" of the poor city is noticed in a scene. In a nice scene Tyrone Power character goes to the poorer part of the city and can not stand the "smell" of it, putting some perfume drops in a handkerchief to avoid it. We also see the making of the matches, that did not in fact appear until XIX century. There is a bright scene referring to Georgians' lack of hygiene when everybody gets scandalized when knowing Power takes a bath averyday!

Excellent costumes designed by Margart Furse and splendid house interiors that bring a past century in all its splendor, the house becoming a character in its own right.

Filmed in England, Tyrone Power did a research on XVIII century by reading James Boswell writings Life of Samuel Johnson (dr. Johnson's most accomplished biography) as well as his London Journal, learning British customs and habits of that era.

As a curious note, when searching Georgian furniture for the movie in London, British dealers stated that they were practically cleaned out of pre-regency stock furniture by American antique hunters, estimating that more Americans than British owned Georgian furniture, making difficult to obtain pieces for the movie at affordable price.

Two scientists (E. N. Tiratsoo and I. S. Hallows, of an enterprise related to nuclear energy development) advised the studio on how to built the atomical research station.

Actor Raymond Huntley, who plays Helens's fiancee played 1970's BBC series Upstairs & Downstairs family solicitor sir Geoffrey.

Although I would have changed the ending for a more suitable one. Since there is no mention to Helen in Standish diary, a brighter and more imaginative explanation could have been that in the end Peter took her with him when the storm comes. Since she is not afraid of the future but interested in it and willing to live it, and because at one point she is even able to watch it through Peter's eyes and gets more fascinated than afraid of (a much enhancing and positive scene in comparison to 1933 version), it would have suited perfectly, making a more accomplished ending.

A tv version was also filmed in 1949 starring Richard Greene and Grace Kelly.

Highly recommended.

If you're looking for a cross between Kate and Leopold and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, look no further than I'll Never Forget You. It's a clever classic starring Tyrone Power as a frustrated American scientist in post-war England. He explains to his friend and coworker Michael Rennie that he believes in time travel and in fact, due to diaries and letters he's discovered in his home, he's already travelled back in time two hundred years and impersonated his ancestor. Once Michael is thoroughly confused and frightened off, Ty's left alone and struck by lightening.

He collapses, then reaches for the door of his home. The film has changed to Technicolor, and his clothes have changed to the latest fashions of the 1700s. Ty's gone back in time! And while he thinks he knows everything that will happen, he doesn't count on the beautiful Ann Blyth, whose presence was never mentioned in any documents he read during his research. Everyone else he meets get quickly frightened by his prognostications, but Ann is sympathetic and interested. Naturally, they fall in love, but since their romance wasn't written in history, will everything be changed?

As you can tell from the title, this isn't a light movie, nor is it particularly happy. It is a nice romantic drama, though, with some well-written passages to explain time travel. I like these types of stories, since Mark Twain's novel is one of my favorites of all time. If you particularly liked the 1949 Bing Crosby version, you'll probably like this Tyrone Power movie. I can't tell you why, but after you watch it, you'll understand.

I saw this movie in the 50's and thought it was one of the most beautiful love stories. Ann Blyth was one of my favorite actresses and she was, as usual, simply marvelous. Why don't they show it on television or put it out on video. I would love to see it again.