t-pitt-1 In giving Love Story 6 stars I am very conscious that I am judging it by today's standards rather than the standards of 1944 when the film was released. Soppy and melodramatic it may be, but nevertheless there there is a lot to enjoy and appreciate in it. I was particularly interested in the Cornish setting, with some quite spectacular coastal scenery which is well photographed in black and white. Margaret Lockwood is excellent as dying pianist Lissa, but I'm afraid I found Stewart Granger very hard to swallow. Someone else described him here as wooden and supercilious and I can only agree. The supporting cast are all very good and in the background of the story is WW2, which at the time of the film's release was still in full swing. As a piece of romantic escapism I can imagine it would have been very popular with British audiences who were carrying on with a stiff upper lip and enduring terrible privations and the constant fear of death,,either their own or that of loved ones. The music, Herbert Bath's Cornish Rhapsody, is memorable and very well played. Something of a curiosity, it is well worth a look.

murray-allison94 I love anything with Margaret Lockwood in it. Stewart Granger also had something, I think. The settings are great and the music too. I've never been to that spot where the open air concert takes place but its on my list. But mostly what I like about this film is the totally ludicrous plot. It's one of those truly whacky films of the forties where nobody tells anybody anything but the characters variously are dying/ suffering from a serious condition such as amnesia or (as here) encroaching blindness but, because they're British, they can't tell each other or anybody else. It's obviously completely bonkers but they just don't make them like it now.

writers_reign Travelling by train to Cornwall to shoot location footage Stewart Granger shared a carriage with director Leslie Arliss who asked casually what Granger thought of the script. Unaware that Arliss had a co-writer credit Granger replied succinctly 'crap'. I have little time for Granger as an actor, finding him both smug and wooden but I can't fault his critical faculties, or at least not in this case. Someone involved in the writing had clearly been blown away by One-Way Passage and thought they could do just as well. Boy, did they get a wrong number and it wasn't Cornish Rhapsody. For the record One-Way Passage featured a doomed shipboard romance between two people returning by sea to America, she to die of an incurable disease, he to be executed. The perpetrators of Love Story give us a terminally ill Margaret Lockwood opting to spend her last few months in Cornwall where she meets soon-to-be-blind Stewart Granger neither, of course, revealing the truth to the other. Tom Walls and Patricia Roc are also along for the ride and acquit themselves as well as can be expected under the circumstances. It was probably designed as escapist fodder |(it was produced in 1944) but ironically it is the audience who seek freedom.

michel boudot this is the first film i saw more then 50 years ago..it was the first british film shown in montreal after the war in 1945...I would like to see this film again..but it is not showing on t.v.and they dont'have it in the video store..the music I have never forgot..a memorable film ..a great love story ..it made me a fan of stewart granger..margaret lockwood and patricia roc.