content wonderful' quality of tape defective This is a wonderful film and I really wanted my own copy, but the tape sent was defective and the tape crashed half way through the film.
Truly enchanting I have always loved this movie and saw it again recently--it was a Comcast On Demand free movie selection. Would like to comment on several suggestions made by other reviewers. First, I hope this movie is never colorized--the atmosphere of the film, with the mysterious cottage on the ocean, is perfect in black and white (especially, as someone noted, on a rainy day). Secondly, to the person who commented that this film is ripe for a remake, I hope that never happens either...too many classic films have been butchered by remakes (ie "An Affair to Remember," the Annette Bening version). I just have one quibble with the film, and that is that I don't think Dorothy McGuire's character Laura is all that "awful homely," to quote the little boy in the film. Mostly she just needs a good eyebrow waxing! Also,Robert Young is supposed to be so hideously disfigured when all he has is one scar on his cheek. The scene at the dance, when Laura is the only woman left available to dance and men are approaching her and then turning away in seeming horror, would have been more credible had she truly been ugly.
Enchanted Cottage Several year ago I found a copy and have shared it with friends . All have loved the movie and have watched it several times before it is returned. I find it completely delightful and if you like old movies then this one ranks up there with the Secret Garden and Love Affair/Affair to Remember. You will not be disappointed, especially on a rainy afternoon.
Love & Beauty in a Magical House This beautiful film remains a sentimental classic and has retained its power in its exploration of love & beauty through the eyes of the beholder.
Dorothy McGuire portrays the plain and sensitive Laura Pennington, a woman seemingly destined to be an old maid, where love is only something that can be experienced or observed in others. She comes to work at an old cottage at the edge of town, an enchanted cottage, so-named from her childhood. The cottage has a past, and that is any couple spending their honeymoon there, will continue to fall in love for the rest of their days. As is tradition, couples etch their names on a particular window, some date back to the early eighteenth century. As the legend goes, the home is a place of love, beauty and magic.
Oliver Bradford, (Robert Young) arrives one day with his fiance, falling in love with the house, and paying the future rent to spend their honeymoon. The war breaks out, and Bradford returns from the war emotionally scarred and physically debilitated. He refuses to marry his fiance, and seeks solace in the cottage. It is here that the two lost souls, Laura and Oliver, more out of mutual loneliness and sympathy, decide to get married. With this decision, however, their sad world begins to drastically change.
We see the couple through the eyes of each other, to find that they have miraculously transformed; Laura is no more that homely figure but an incredibly beautiful woman; through the eyes of Laura, we see Oliver's scars have disappeared, appearing now as the handsome man he once was before the war. Can this be true? Can others, too, see their transformation?
Their two closest friends, sensitive to this miracle, refuse to break the spell by telling the couple that their beauty can only be perceived through their own eyes. However, a visit from Oliver's family disrupts their bliss, and reality comes crashing in...
Despite the couple's perceived ugliness, will they remain in love?
This is a beautiful film about love and the nature of beauty. It is an old cliche that those in love see the person they love much differently to everyone else. As the old woman, the owner of the cottage says at the end of the film, "If my old husband rose from the grave and walked in this house, he would say I was the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. And he would be right."
Enchanted Cottage is a wonderful film making one appreciate the mysterious ways of love and beauty.
This is a very special movie,where your dreams may come true.Where is the dvd,such as yentl a tree grows in brooklyn etc. This is an excellent movie where i believe your dreams may come true.Such warmth,love and charm.While this might be considered a chic flick.I think all couples should watch this movie together.Lets hope the us studios release enchanted cottage,and oh yes please dont forget about the us release of a tree grows in brooklyn,shirley valentine,yentl,and of course flower drum song,on DVD!!!! I thank you Stewart L.
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