Often over-looked when homefront films are topic, Mrs-Miniver (42), Best-Years (46) and The-Clock (45) dominating and deservedly so. But on that rare event when it does air on TV and you can give 2+ hrs, you'll discover Since has its own brand of charm that'll make it one of the War dramas you're sure to include in the next conversation.
The tension between soon to divorce co-stars Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker makes for some awkward on-screen moments, the blame which can never be fairly apportioned but a share of it certainly layed on the doorstep of Producer Selznick. Yet, in spite of such state, Claudette Colbert sheds her best known film persona as a flighty femme (It-Happened) and shines as the service wife and Mom who keeps it all together, Navy Commander and family friend Joseph Cotten bringing calm and confidence to the bustling household and Monty Woolley at his cinematic best as Colonel Smollett, his likeable snobbery turning to trust that creates his own little Wonderful-Life catharsis and makes his earlier caustic & culty Whiteside (Dinner) look all the more boorish (3.5/4).
The tension between soon to divorce co-stars Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker makes for some awkward on-screen moments, the blame which can never be fairly apportioned but a share of it certainly layed on the doorstep of Producer Selznick. Yet, in spite of such state, Claudette Colbert sheds her best known film persona as a flighty femme (It-Happened) and shines as the service wife and Mom who keeps it all together, Navy Commander and family friend Joseph Cotten bringing calm and confidence to the bustling household and Monty Woolley at his cinematic best as Colonel Smollett, his likeable snobbery turning to trust that creates his own little Wonderful-Life catharsis and makes his earlier caustic & culty Whiteside (Dinner) look all the more boorish (3.5/4).