Never Say Goodbye (1946)

A seven year old girl (Patti Brady) plots to get her divorced parents back to the altar. The mother (Eleanor Parker) divorced the father (Errol Flynn) because he chased other women. Now, he's repentant and wants her back. Directed by James V. Kern (TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY). If I'm being generous (and I am), one could call this a screwball comedy. The script is actually amusing but director Kern's direction is lackluster and the movie's two leads aren't suited to comedy. Flynn can be droll in his swashbucklers as Robin Hood or Don Juan but as a romantic leading man in a screwball comedy, he's a washout although he has one good comedic scene when he pretends to be a Humphrey Bogart tough guy (reputedly, he was dubbed by the real Bogart). If the film had a stronger director and the leads were expert screwball farceurs like Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, the film might have been a winner. Still, I found it amusing enough to sit through. With Forrest Tucker, S.Z. Sakall, Lucile Watson, Peggy Knudsen, Hattie McDaniel and Donald Woods.