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- 1947
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
- 1947
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
Summary A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
Directed By: Raoul Walsh
Written By: Catherine Turney, Jo Pagano, Maritta M. Wolff, W.R. Burnett
- 1947
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
- 1947
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 36 m
The Man I Love
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Summary A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
Directed By: Raoul Walsh
Written By: Catherine Turney, Jo Pagano, Maritta M. Wolff, W.R. Burnett
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
69
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Walsh sends about a half-dozen plot lines, styles, and themes into the air and keeps them all whizzing along like a master plate spinner, but he makes it look effortless — you never feel the director straining for his effects, all seamlessly integrated into 96 smooth minutes.
By Jim Hemphill FULL REVIEW
Lupino’s flinty performance and Bennett’s haunted one infuse the movie’s pugnacity and violence with tender vulnerability, and Walsh, a cinematic poet of brassy urbanity, stokes the story’s volatile elements—artistic passions, high-society temptations, streetwise bravery, postwar trauma, family loyalty, and the secrets and lies that pass for romance—to a crescendo of abraded grandeur.
The dialogue is a mite pretentious at times, and the plot comes perilously close to soap at the end. But the performances are excellent, and Walsh's sympathetic direction, wonderfully flexible in negotiating the pin-ball effect as characters and problems interact, gives the whole thing the touching, kaleidoscopic flavour of a prototype Alan Rudolph movie.
By Staff (Not Credited) FULL REVIEW
Walsh’s directness gives the film an understated quality that may seem anachronistic today but has real cinematic integrity.
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Production Company
- Warner Bros.
Release Date Jan 11, 1947
Duration 1 h 36 m
Tagline Some of the songs she sings! - "The Man I Love", "Just My Bill", "Why Was I Born", "Body And Soul". (One-sheet poster.
Awards
Photoplay Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
