Someday in the past he will find her...
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early twentieth century. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
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Earnest, grave, nostalgic and classical in form.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Oct 20234/10
**A forgotten film that deserves to be revisited, even with all its flaws.** Personally, I liked this film. It's one of those films that fell into oblivion very quickly, which doesn't seem fair to me: the film is much better than many more expensive and publicized productions, even though it has serious problems, which I'll talk about. Perhaps very few, besides the producers and cast, really believed in it: it didn't receive much attention from studios and theaters, it was a huge success in Asia but was ridiculed in the USA, while Europe seems to have ignored it. The film has a very good, but small, cast: Christopher Reeve was still reaping the rewards of the success of “Superman”, but that didn't stop him from putting in a lot of effort into this smaller work. The actor is a solid protagonist, and his work is one of the levers that moves the film forward and gives it quality. Next to him, we see the elegant Jane Seymour, still quite young, in a performance full of dignity and where she establishes excellent chemistry with Reeve. Christopher Plummer was less fortunate: the actor, whose credits and talent are beyond doubt, received a cliché and quite artificial character because the
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Cast
- Christopher ReeveRichard Collier
- Jane SeymourElise McKenna
- Christopher PlummerWilliam Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
- Teresa WrightLaura Roberts
- Bill ErwinArthur Biehl
- George VoskovecDr. Gerald Finney
- Susan FrenchOlder Elise
- John AlvinArthur's Father
- Eddra GaleGenevieve
- Audrey BennettRichard's Date [1972]
Crew
- Jeannot SzwarcDirector
- Richard MathesonScreenplay
- Richard MathesonNovel
- Isidore MankofskyDirector of Photography
- John BarryOriginal Music Composer
- Jeff GoursonEditor
- Stephen DeutschProducer
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