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Between Two Worlds

1944, Movie, NR, 112 mins

Between Two Worlds: Review

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A remake of OUTWARD BOUND (1930, starring Leslie Howard), and based on a hit play, the film opens as emigrant Austrians fleeing Nazi air raids are shown inside a limousine heading for a transatlantic liner. A bomb explodes nearby, hurling them from the vehicle. Parker's character is near the car, but is not killed by the blast. She returns to her London flat and decides to commit suicide with her equally despondent husband (Henreid). They turn on the gas, and suddenly find themselves aboard a ship which is fog-bound and without a specific destination. One by one, Henreid and Parker identify those passengers in the limousine, all of whom have been killed by the bomb. They then realize that they are on board a ship of the dead, a vessel sailing between life and eternity. Garfield is a smart-cracking newsman who seems out of place and has little to do or say. As was his habit when having no meat to his role, he overacts in the scenes he is given. Before the death ship reaches its destination, Greenstreet comes aboard as the Examiner. He determines who goes to what place, presumably Heaven or Hell. In the case of the suicides, he first states that their terrible crime against themselves demands that they sail endlessly through the fogbound waters of limbo. Henreid and Parker beg for another chance, and Greenstreet relents with compassion. The couple come to in their flat in time to turn off the gas and return to the world of the living. Director Blatt took a fragile fantasy and approached it with stark realism, a technique that does not work. Greenstreet is good in his role of divine judge, and Gwenn, as the sole crew member serving the doomed passengers, is properly mysterious. leave a comment
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