Review of None But the Lonely Heart (1944) by Steve G — 23 Jun 2013

I wish the version I saw was close captioned. Very difficult to understand the cockney accents.

Probably Grant's best performance. One of his two Oscar nominations. He brings to life a flawed character trying to deal with the consequences of his own shortcomings, in addition to the hardships around him. At his vaudevillian best. There's a very genuine quality about the relationships.

My first Ethel Barrymore film. A superb performance.

One gets the sense that the film isn't quite sure what it wants to be. It's somewhat schizophrenic. It carries a haunting nature about itself, & forebodes, to be sure. But whether it fully delivers on a dramatic level is slightly less certain.

It was made in the midst of the war, and like many war pictures, carried a solemnity about it. It did a good job of tying together the motif.