So Well Remembered (1947)

Spanning the years from WWI to WWII and told in flashback, a dedicated newspaper editor (John Mills) falls in love and marries the headstrong daughter (Martha Scott) of a corrupt mill owner (Frederick Leister). But love has blinded the newspaper man to her true nature. Based on the novel by James Hilton (GOODBYE MR. CHIPS) and directed by Edward Dmytryk (CROSSFIRE). The tale of a good man in love with a manipulative and ambitious Lady MacBeth like wife, it's an old fashioned (in the good sense) literate/literary movie that has a solid story that holds you in its grip to the very end. In her best performance, Martha Scott carries the ball and runs with it, not afraid to show us what a monster her calculating wife and mother is. The kind of well crafted studio (in this case, RKO) film making that no longer exists today. The cinematic equivalent of a good page turner. With Trevor Howard (excellent as an alcoholic doctor), Richard Carlson, Patricia Roc, Reginald Tate and Juliet Mills.