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I wish this wonderful movie would be released on DVD

posted 18 years ago by zumbinis
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I think I caught this movie for the first time sometime in the last ten years, while clicking channels--sometime before AMC started cutting up its movies with commercials. I watch the incompleate VHS copy I have more than once a year. I wish this wonderful movie would be released on DVD soon. There's a pleasing mix of poingantcy, humor, love, anxiety and anger as the couples meet and fall in love: two soldiers on leave (Dennis Morgan and the "walking vitamin tablet", Dane Clark) pursue lovely Eleanor Parker and witty Faye Emerson, parachute factory workers.

The girls are so beautiful! I was stunned when I realized Parker later played the cool Countess in Sound of Music. Here she seems, by turns, kind and vulnerable, then strong and determined, as she has to fight for love in the midst of war and family disapproval.

Throughout, this film has soom of the innocently sexy words and looks I've ever seen in a movie! Emerson has scenes of memorable repartee ("Wadja do with a guy like this?!") with Clark ("You woman, you!!). The affection among these characters and couples seems very real; the flirting deepened to caring, making me root for them as they worry about what the war may have in store for them.

I also enjoyed the other characters: the milquetoast dad with strength that comes out when it's most needed by his beloved daughter, the disapproving older sister and mom, and the starry-eyed younger sister who encourages and helps the lovers (why do teen girls in movies of the 30s and 40s seem older...?)

If anyone ever sees this available on DVD, or even on VHS, please let me know. Come on, whoever holds the rights, please release this wonderful movie on DVD!

Steve

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] monet2004 16 years ago

It's also one of my favorite films and I wish it was on DVD. It's a gem. I saw it a few years ago about half-way through and luckily TCM played it again so that I can see the rest. It's touching, heartwarming and very real.

I don't understand why "The Very Thought of You" is not mentioned anywhere or even talked about by classic historians. If it's not "Casablanca" or "Gone With The Wind", these small gem of a movie are left in a vault to be forgotten. This movie reminds me a little bit of "The Best Years of Our Lives" in terms of the soldiers coming home. However, this movie captures my heart more than "Best Years" because you see how both couples meet and in one weekend fall in love.

I wish the studios would release these forgotten gems instead of always releasing mainstream movies. Thank goodness for TCM or else I wouldn't have caught this gem last year.

Release it already!

[–] gema6 11 years ago

Years and years later, and it's still not on DVD...losing hope!

[–] xdayton 11 years ago

It's on TCM right now.

[–] zumbinis 11 years ago

I also videotaped Force of Arms, another WW 2 love story, starring the luminous Nancy Olson with William Holden, around the same time and also off AMC. It is available on DVD now, I believe from Warner Bros Classics, as a no-extras print on demand. I just love Olson and Holden together in this.

Another favorite that is not available on DVD, as far as I know, is Hollywood Canteen. I can't think of the lead actors' names at the moment.

[–] boirin 10 years ago

I don't know if you're aware, but the TCM site has a facility to vote for movies that you would like released on DVD.

On the TCM page for 'The Very Thought of You', click on 'More Reviews' situated down at the bottom of the page. That takes you to the User Reviews page and you'll see a box 'Vote for this title'.

At present, the film has 533 votes ... so we're not alone.