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Almost 20 years after his 1939 Love Affair, McCarey returned to the same story—that of a jaded fortune-hunting roué and unhappily engaged woman who meet on a transatlantic liner, are redeemed in love for one another, then separated by tragedy—which proved every bit as gutting (and popular with audiences) in Technicolor and CinemaScope. Cary Grant, who urged the remake, and Deborah Kerr take over from the original’s twosome of Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, and while arguments can be and have been made for the superiority of one pairing or the other, we’re more than happy to have them both.

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century