I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU is the remake of BERKELEY SQUARE and is about scientist Peter Standish (Tyrone Power) who has such a love of the past that he "wills" himself back to the eighteenth century. While there, he falls in love with a girl who never existed (Ann Blyth).
Since he knows about future events he is looked upon as a conjurer, at first; but as his predictions never fail, he soon comes to be seen as an emisary of the devil.
With his 20th century knowledge of science, he makes models of famous inventions: the electric light, the steam engine, and talks about splitting the atom and using chloroform in surgery. He believes he can speed up progress by a century and a half, and is surprised to find that people are afraid of his ideas. The 18th century is not at all as he expected. He is shocked by the filth and the cruelty he sees all around him. The only thing he loves about the era is Helen. But she too is taken away from him as he is mysteriously whisked back to the 20th century.
The film was made in the U.K.; was evidently poorly distributed in the U.S. and is quite difficult to see. I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU is superior to BERKELEY SQUARE (which seems very stagey when seen today). Along the way, many fine British character actors play wonderful cameos of Dr. Johnson (Robert Atkins) and the Duchess of Devonshire (Kathleen Byron, more famous as the sex mad nun in BLACK NARCISSUS).
If you like romantic films and you ever get the chance, see this film.
Since he knows about future events he is looked upon as a conjurer, at first; but as his predictions never fail, he soon comes to be seen as an emisary of the devil.
With his 20th century knowledge of science, he makes models of famous inventions: the electric light, the steam engine, and talks about splitting the atom and using chloroform in surgery. He believes he can speed up progress by a century and a half, and is surprised to find that people are afraid of his ideas. The 18th century is not at all as he expected. He is shocked by the filth and the cruelty he sees all around him. The only thing he loves about the era is Helen. But she too is taken away from him as he is mysteriously whisked back to the 20th century.
The film was made in the U.K.; was evidently poorly distributed in the U.S. and is quite difficult to see. I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU is superior to BERKELEY SQUARE (which seems very stagey when seen today). Along the way, many fine British character actors play wonderful cameos of Dr. Johnson (Robert Atkins) and the Duchess of Devonshire (Kathleen Byron, more famous as the sex mad nun in BLACK NARCISSUS).
If you like romantic films and you ever get the chance, see this film.