![]() The film sort of becomes a Grant Hotel at sea. The friendly steward helps people with drinks and conversation. They don’t recall how they got there nor does anyone else. Suddenly they are on a large ship with a group of people, mingling in the bar. She returns to their flat to find Henry in the act of suicide and refuses to leave him. As they leave, there is an air raid and the fleeing car suffers a direct hit. (Where have I heard something like that before?) Distraught, he leaves the diplomatic office and returns home, where he seals the window and plays his favorite record.Īnn has missed Henry at the office but sees a group of people getting their documents and leaving. He and Ann want to get to America but are having trouble securing exit visas. His hands are injured and he can no longer play. Henry Bergner is an Austrian pianist turned soldier living in London. The characters in Between Two Worlds try to unravel the mystery of how they ended up together on a ship at sea. And there was a score from Eric Wolfgang Korngold, which immediately makes any film worth watching. The pairing of Henreid and Greenstreet just a year after Casablanca got my interest up. I saw John Garfield listed as Tom Prior, Edmund Gwenn as Scrubby the steward, and Sydney Greenstreet as Tim Thompson. The leads are Paul Henreid as Henry Bergner and Eleanor Parker as his wife Anne. I was already five minutes into the broadcast, but I figured I could catch up with it pretty fast. I read the brief synopsis and looked at the cast. The next morning I got up and as I scanned the channel guides, I ran across this film Beyond Two Worlds. But after watching it the other night, I decided to go to sleep rather than immediately put my thoughts down on the computer. ![]() This week I had intended to review The Thing From Another World and give some background story about it and me. Every now and again I stumble across a film that I have never heard of but catches my interest. I really enjoy doing these columns and seeing the variety of films that I have enjoyed or, in some cases, not enjoyed. This is the 146th my series of Forgotten, Obscure or Neglected Films ![]() Between Two Worlds is quite a different film from The Thing From Another World. ![]()
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