What made me pull it up is watching a documentary/interview about Robert Mitchum, they bring up Till The End of Time (1946) which is the movie that I most closely associate with TBYOOL. It's not a great picture, as TBYOOL is, but it is a really fine one with an interesting take on the woman left behind/widowed by the war in Dorothy MacGuire. MacGuire's character is neither Virginia Mayo's selfish party girl, nor is she the picture perfect soldier's widow. She's quite flawed, and her judgement not always the best. She hurts herself a great deal. This makes it a fascinatingly mature and well rounded character, with MacGuire's performance fully equal to its demands. She delivers a sophisticated performance that is just messy enough to be heartbreakingly real and not always entirely likable.
Providing further interest is an outstanding supporting appearance by Robert Mitchum. I say "outstanding" because I think Dmytryck was brilliant to cast him in such a movie, playing such a character among all these apparently "ideal" American suburbanites. An actor who fit seamlessly in the seamy world of noir, here in Pleasantville (
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If you like TBOOL, give this movie a try. It's not as perfectly fine a film, but it's just as adult. Sadly, it's not on DVD and not currently scheduled on TCM, but if it pops up on the dial I'll post a reminder here.