Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

An absolute waste of money

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This compelling (atmospheric) mystery romance drama is a Cyrano de Bergerac-type story from Chris Massie with a screenplay by Ayn Rand; it was directed by William Dieterle.Jennifer Jones plays Victoria, who falls in love with the author of the titled "love letters"; she thinks Roger Morland (Robert Sully) wrote them, but actually it was his friend and fellow officer Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten) who penned the letters on his behalf. She marries Roger but when Victoria learns the truth, she is disillusioned and is soon convicted of her husband's murder. Since she was simultaneously stricken with amnesia, and now thinks her name is Singleton, she is soon released into the care of a friend named Dilly Carson (Ann Richards).Some time later, Alan returns from the war via a sanitarium. He learns of his friend's death and visits the small town where the letters had been sent. At a party, he meets Dilly and later, somewhat inebriated, recounts the story of his friend and the letters. Of course, Dilly knows the story; she's grown to like Alan but she's also weary of the possibilities and danger of exposing the truth to Singleton.Alan returns to live at his Aunt's house which is still being kept by Mack (Cecil Kellaway). Not really recovered from the pain of the war, Alan breaks his engagement with his fiancée Helen (Anita Louise). But he's intrigued by the mystery of his friend Roger's death, so he researches it and finds that his wife had been the murderer. He's also always wanted to meet the woman to whom he'd written the letters because he'd always been curious about her.Of course, Alan meets Singleton and the two fall in love. Dilly warns Alan not to tell Singleton that she is actually Victoria, the person Singleton believes is Alan's lost love. When Alan and Singleton marry, her curiosity prompts a self discovery of her own, which is enabled when her aged "parent" Beatrice Remington (Gladys Cooper) returns the area. Beatrice had adopted orphan Victoria and had actually been the one who'd murdered Roger, to protect her former charge, before she'd suffered from a stroke and had been unable to testify at the trial. All this comes rushing back to Singleton when she happens upon the old house where she finds Beatrice; Alan arrives just in time to complete the connection, for himself and her.Reginald Denny and Ian Wolfe (uncredited) also plays roles in this film which earned Jones a Best Actress Academy Award nomination; its B&W Art Direction-Set Decoration, title Song, and Score were also Oscar nominated.

I have seen this video many times mainly because I absolutely adore Jennifer Jones.She is an awesome beauty and I must be honest, a sexual fantasy of mine.The fact she is playing a Canadian orphan in the film at least explains her accent.The story of an amnesiac who gradually becomes her true self is OK but why oh why does Hollywood insist on producing "twee" versions of "little 'ole England" in California complete with "gargoyles"? Surely English actors playing English characters in England would have been more authentic.Just to throw in a few English actors (Gladys Cooper and a boy in the London Journal reading room plus stock film company footage of London England, is not convincing enough to the film connoisseur).Also how could a private home have a view overlooking Trafalgar Square!This is unsubtle image - fixing on innocent susceptible eyes.I am sure Americans cringe just as much when they hear unconvincing American accents from non-U.S. nationals.Jo Cotten had the great good fortune to appear to my knowledge with Ms Jones also in Duel in the Sun (1946)/Portrait of Jennie (1948) and Since you went away (1944).Therefore they had already done a film together and their scenes worked well and I almost found myself forgetting his "English" accent! JJ never looked more lovely than in this 1945 picture and there is a very memorable scene when Alan (Jo Cotton) comes back to his house in Essex and receives a call from Dilly Carson (Ann Richards) that "Singleton" appears to have gone missing.Suddenly there is a giggle and the lovely "Singleton" a.k.a.Victoria Moreland, (JJ), pops up from the sofa to surprise Alan- JJ looks absolutely stunning!

Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten are at their best in this absorbing romantic drama with a screenplay by (of all people) Ayn Rand. How the author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" got talked into writing this sort of fragile romance is something I'm still puzzled over--doesn't seem like her cup of tea nor does it bear the stamp of her writing in any way whatsoever. Anyway, the story concerns letters that one soldier (Joseph Cotten) writes for another and what happens when the truth is revealed to the man's sweetheart (Jennifer Jones), who has of course fallen in love with the wrong man. The plot is too intricate to divulge here and doing so would be a spoiler anyway--suffice it to say that it all ends with a startling revelation involving another player in the cast. Lending solid support in minor roles are Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, Anita Louise and the charming Ann Richards who does splendidly in a key role. Jennifer Jones deserved her Oscar nomination as the bewildered girl who develops amnesia to forget a nasty incident involving the letters. Cotten is his usual charming self as the soldier who finds himself falling in love with the disturbed girl.

This film is more than just the best of the "other fellow writes love notes" genre. The Ayn Rand screenplay, though a potboiler, conveys the absolutist nature of true romantic love, which certainly dovetailed nicely with her objectivist philosophy. Jennifer Jones is lovely as ever, and extremely convincing in her amnesiac role. A fine film.