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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 16, 2021 17:57:38 GMT
Have you seen Berkeley Square? In this 1933 film, Leslie Howard wills himself back to the time of the American Revolution, and the life of an ancestor. The poor ancestor, however (also played by Howard) finds himself exchanging places with his 20th-century descendant, with no idea how or why he got there, or what hit him. Rather than the grand romance of Somewhere In Time, it plays as a mostly light and charming, fish-out-of-water comedy of manners. Yes, and I liked it a lot. “Hm, the man must be gifted with second sight. Such feats as this are common in Scotland.”  I’m such a sucker for the time-travel/alternate-universe romance… You appear to remember it better than I do. I've seen it only the once, and really need to revisit it when I can. I adore Howard, and have been on a completist mission for some years. I believe I've got only four features left. And to think, when I first saw GWTW (my only exposure to him at the time), I felt there wasn't much to him. The Petrified Forest changed all that a few years later, and he's never disappointed me since. I agree time travel is an irresistible notion, but even if offered the opportunity, secure in the knowledge I could return at will from whichever time I'd chosen, the possibility of it being fraught with unforeseen difficulties, complications, dangers or whatnot would scare hell out of me.
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I’m such a sucker for the time-travel/alternate-universe romance…