Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Copyright 30 March 1946 by Warner Bros Pictures Inc. A Warner Bros-First National picture. A Hal B. Wallis Production. New York opening at the Hollywood: 21 November 1945. U.S. release: 30 March 1946. U.K. release: 8 April 1946. Australian release: 16 May 1946. 12,409 feet. 137½ minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Beautiful fortune-hunter Clio Dulaine arrives back in her native New Orleans, after a long absence, with her bizarre body servant, the mulatto Angelique, and the dwarf Cupidon. In the French market, Clio meets Clint Maroon, a cowboy from Texas, and an immediate and intense mutual love is ignited, despite Angelique's protests. All of New Orleans buzzes over this romance, which reminds them all of the old Dulaine family scandal involving Clio's dead parents.
NOTES: With gross domestic rentals of $4.3 million, number 7 at U.S./Canadian ticket windows for 1945.
Despite both Cooper's and Bergman's enormous popularity in Australia, the film came in at number 27 of the year's box-office successes. The reason was simple. Quite a few cinemas did not screen Warner Bros movies.
Miss Robson lost out on Hollywood's annual award for Best Supporting Actress to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge.
COMMENT: Commences most promisingly with the return of Miss Bergman to the old family mansion to avenge her mother (shades of King's Row).
Unfortunately, this story is wound up with astonishing expedition and the film degenerates into an extended dialogue between its two attractive stars, superlatively photographed in rich black and white against tasteful sets.
Finally, the author introduces an entirely different setting which erupts in a brief episode of action before the predictable fade-out.
The film is realised with taste, elegance and craftsmanship - indeed it is one of Wood's most stylish films, and it has a marvellous Steiner score - but it seems a long 135 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Beautiful fortune-hunter Clio Dulaine arrives back in her native New Orleans, after a long absence, with her bizarre body servant, the mulatto Angelique, and the dwarf Cupidon. In the French market, Clio meets Clint Maroon, a cowboy from Texas, and an immediate and intense mutual love is ignited, despite Angelique's protests. All of New Orleans buzzes over this romance, which reminds them all of the old Dulaine family scandal involving Clio's dead parents.
NOTES: With gross domestic rentals of $4.3 million, number 7 at U.S./Canadian ticket windows for 1945.
Despite both Cooper's and Bergman's enormous popularity in Australia, the film came in at number 27 of the year's box-office successes. The reason was simple. Quite a few cinemas did not screen Warner Bros movies.
Miss Robson lost out on Hollywood's annual award for Best Supporting Actress to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge.
COMMENT: Commences most promisingly with the return of Miss Bergman to the old family mansion to avenge her mother (shades of King's Row).
Unfortunately, this story is wound up with astonishing expedition and the film degenerates into an extended dialogue between its two attractive stars, superlatively photographed in rich black and white against tasteful sets.
Finally, the author introduces an entirely different setting which erupts in a brief episode of action before the predictable fade-out.
The film is realised with taste, elegance and craftsmanship - indeed it is one of Wood's most stylish films, and it has a marvellous Steiner score - but it seems a long 135 minutes.