The Last Time I Saw Paris

  • Elizabeth Taylor: Marion Ellswirth / Wills
  • Van Johnson: Charles Wills
  • Walter Pidgeon: James Ellswirth
  • Donna Reed: Helen Ellswirth / Matine
  • Roger Moore: Paul Lane
  • Kurt Kasznar: Maurice
  • Eva Gabor: Mrs. Lorraine Quarl
  • George Dolenz: Claude Matine
  • Sandy Descher: Vicky Wills
  • Celia Lovsky: Mama Janette
  • Peter Leeds: Barney
  • John Doucette: Campbell

Back in Paris is a film by director Richard Brooks from the year 1954. The original English title The Last Time I Saw Paris is also the title of a composition by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern in 1941, originally for the film Lady Be Good written. The tune was also used for that time in Paris as a soundtrack. The plot of the romance is based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald entitled Babylon Revisited.

Action

The soldier Charles learns at the celebrations marking the war's end in Paris know the young Helen and invited her to a private party. There he meets her sister Marion and it turns out that the two had previously been seen in the city and kissed in the euphoria. Helen, who obviously feels attracted to Charles is jealous of her sister, especially as this instantly wrapped the young soldiers around her finger.

A short time later marry Charles and Marion, who both live henceforth continue at the home of Marion's father. Helen on the other hand moves to her own marriage to her husband. The family is always short of money, the father has no regular income, but passes the time with various games of chance, and Charles has with his work as a journalist for the Army newspaper "Stars and Stripes" finance his father and the excessive lifestyle of his wife. This is enjoying life to the fullest, going to parties and charmed with their attractiveness many men. Thus it continues to receive various gifts in the form of foods that are just still in the postwar period.

A sudden profit from purchased years ago oilfields acknowledges all the financial worries of the family out of the way, and even after the birth of their daughter Victoria, called " Vicky " Marion continues its strong social life, while Charles tries to establish himself as a journalist and writer foot. But for a promotion, he is skipped and also his manuscript is rejected by the publishers. The couple's relationship becomes increasingly burdened and even Charles ' desire to move to the United States and to lead a regular life, does not fit to Marions party life.

Charles is bored and attention is becoming alcohol. When his wife one evening in the pouring rain is on the doorstep, he is drunk in the living room and not hear her knock. Then Marion is seriously ill and the doctors struggling for their lives, while they are reconciled with Charles and both find that they are so carefree is no longer her life as it was just after the war. Finally, Marion is losing the battle for their lives, and Charles leaves guiltily the city, while his daughter grows up with Helen. Years later he returns and thinks back to the time at that time in Paris. He recognizes that the separation of Vicky has made him even more lonely, and wants to take the girl with them to America. Helen denied this at first, she is still hurt after all these years that Charles Marion at that time preferred to her. However, eventually you jump over their shadows and lets the girl go with him.

Reviews

The film received mixed reviews. Terms such as "surprising vitality " and " solid performance " are more negative votes as " constrained game" against.

" Elegiac feeling cinema of yesteryear "

"Time and environment color values ​​on the smooth, melodramatic entertainment movie. "

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