One of those films I don't think anyone remembers - except maybe completists for Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, director Jean Negulesco, and producer Charles Brackett. It's a remake of Sentimental Journey which was a hit in 1946 - very reassuring tale of living on after death which would have had resonance during the war. Maybe not so much in 1958 or it could've been the handling and stars.
This has Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack, who'd just been a hit in Written on the Wind - but that film was stolen by Dorothy Malone and had Rock Hudson, who's a lot warmer screen presence. It's hard to care too much how Robert Stack fares after the death of Bacall.
Look, I've got a seven year old daughter so I got into this and the kid isn't bad. It's touching how she's determined to find a home and keeps getting rejected by families at the orphanage - and has a big imagination and doesn't get along well with science-y Stack. That's all fine.
It's just kind of pointless. Annoying theme tune.
Has that handsome late 50s Fox look. Like a lot of Brackett productions it's done with taste and care and is dull. Maybe with different stars... Hmm. No don't think that was it, either.
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