I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Set during the Christmas season, a young woman (Ginger Rogers) and a soldier (Joseph Cotten) meet on a train. Slowly, a romantic attachment develops but both of them are hiding secrets. She is fresh out of prison and he's been released from a medical facility which treated his PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). Based on the radio play DOUBLE FURLOUGH by Charles Martin and directed by William Dieterle (DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER). This is what I call an in between movie. Not bad but not really good either. The cast is fine (Rogers is especially good) but the well intentioned screenplay is on the dull side. It's a delicate romance but Rogers and Cotten don't set off any sparks and what's a love story if the romantic leads don't have chemistry? Still, I liked the movie's premise of two lost and bruised people finding love when least expected. The film was a big hit with 1944 audiences. With Shirley Temple, John Derek, Spring Byington, Tom Tully and Chill Wills.